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JAZZ

WHERE TO SEE VINCE
GUARALDI'S GENIUS-LIVE

PHOTOGRAPHY

AL SMITH'S SHOTS AT MOHAI

PAINTING

THE HIDDEN MEANING
OF A 71-YEAR-OLD PIECE

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soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas,
you ought to know there are not two, not
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Sean Nelson is a jerk about jazz. He’s more of
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Do you know about Andrew Wyeth’s
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at Seattle Art Museum? You’d never know it’s
about his father, since it’s a painting of a hill,
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And the Museum of History & Industry just
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ANATOMY OF A PAINTING

Winter 1946 by Andrew Wyeth

By Christopher Frizzelle

The Exhibit

Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect was
organized by Seattle Art Museum
with the Brandywine River
Museum of Art for the 100th
anniversary of the artist's birth,
in 1917. It includes never-before-
exhibited drawings, rough drafts,
studies, and paintings.

The Paint

Wyeth made Winter
1946 with tempera on a
hardboard panel. Unlike
oil paint, tempera has to
be made daily from egg
yolk and pigment, and
it dries quickly.

The Location

This is a real place
depicted above—
Kuerner's Hill outside
Chadds Ford, in rural
Pennsylvania, where the
artist spent part of his
childhood.

The Father

Wyeth's father, N.C.
Wyeth, was an
illustrator and Andrew's
first teacher. He tried to
dissuade his son from
using tempera.

The Death

N.C. Wyeth (right) was
killed when a freight
train crashed into
his car at a railroad
crossing. A favored
grandson (Andrew's
nephew) was also in
the car and died too. A
local boy discovered the
mangled bodies and protected them from dogs
until they could be cut loose from the wreckage.

The Boy

According to some accounts,
the boy in this painting is Allan
Lynch, a childhood friend of
the artist who discovered the
bodies (and who figures in
several other Wyeth paintings).
But Wyeth also claimed the
boy in this painting "was me,
at a loss—that hand drifting
in the air was my free soul,
groping."

The Hill

The railroad crossing where
the fatal wreck took place is on
the other side of that hill. "The
landscape is synonymous with
his father's death," a museum
curator noted. Wyeth himself
once explained that he had
been "sick" that he'd never
painted his father when he was
alive, and that this "hill finally
became a portrait of him."

The Coincidence

October 19, 1 932, was the
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his father's studio as an
apprentice. October 1 9, 1 937,
was the date of Wyeth's first
art show in New York. October
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N.C. Wyeth got into the fatal
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The Unlikely Story of Vince Guaraldi’s
A Charlie Brown Christmas

And where you can see the music performed live in Seattle.

BY CHARLES MUDEDE

I think it’s one of the most beautiful pieces of
jazz ever composed. Listening to it is like
watching snow through a window. The room
is warm, something is roasting in the oven,
and outside the flakes are falling faintly
through the universe and upon the trees, the
hedges, the rain gutters, the telephone poles,
and the rooftops of a thousand apartment
buildings in a very big city. This is where you
want to be forever. This is Vince Guaraldi’s
“Christmas Time Is Here.” It opens with a
trembling bass, like

A Charlie Brown
Christmas

Through Dec 27,
Taproot Theatre

Jose Gonzales
Trio performs ‘A
Charlie Brown
Christmas’

Sun Dec 10, Cornish
Playhouse

The Music of‘A
Charlie Brown
Christmas’

Mon Dec 18 & Wed Dec
20, the Royal Room

Snow Globe

Thurs Dec 21,
Fremont Abbey

someone coming out
of the cold, stamping
their feet, brushing
the snow off their
shoulders, hanging
up their winter coat,
rubbing and blowing
on numb fingers, and
entering the living
room where there is
a window for watch¬
ing the flakes falling
faintly upon all the
buildings of the living.

“Christmas Time
Is Here” is the cen¬
terpiece, in my opin¬
ion, of the soundtrack
for the masterpiece of
American culture A
Charlie Brown Christmas. It was composed
by the Bay Area jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi.
It first appeared on television on December 9,
1965. It forever married jazz with Peanuts, a
comic strip by Charles Schulz. But the story of
how Guaraldi’s music and Schulz’s characters
came together is filled with accidents.

The Golden Gate Bridge figures into it. As
does the jazz D J A1 “Jazzbo” Collins. As does a
documentary about the black American base¬
ball legend Willie Mays. The more you look
into the story of the soundtrack of A Charlie
Brown Christmas, the more the idea of a God
with a master plan is erased and replaced by
the story of chaos.

I’m walking to the house of the local jazz
pianist Jose Gonzales. There’s a lot of wind,
but the leaves on the sidewalk are wet. The
clouds are low. And though it is 11 a.m., it looks
like the day is already about to be done with.
Hillman City is behind me, and Seward Park
ahead.

JOHNULMAN

Jose Gonzales, whose jazz trio performs the music every year as a fundraiser
for Strawberry Theatre Workshop, knows this music inside and out.

For the past six years, Gonzales’s trio—with
Michael Marcus (bass) and Matt Jorgensen
(drums)—has been performing the entire A
Charlie Brown Christmas to raise money for

Strawberry Theatre Workshop. (Taproot The¬
atre, the Royal Room, and Fremont Abbey are
also producing performances of it this year.)
Gonzales, who was born in Arlington, Washing¬

ton, and was trained initially in classical music,
knows this soundtrack inside and out.

I’m visiting him because I want the power
of the music revealed to me. What makes it
right as rain for Peanuts'! Why Guaraldi and
not someone else? Exactly what made him the
best possible pianist for the comic strip in this
of all possible godless worlds?

Gonzales welcomes me into his home. He is
wearing cozy purple slippers. The piano is in
the center of his living room. He shows me a
seat (I take it), and, without wasting time, he
sits at the piano and begins to explain.

“The first thing you have to understand
is that, culturally, when this soundtrack is
released, jazz is still popular. Nowadays, it’s
not. But back then, it is the thing. This is the
mid-1960s. And if this popularity wasn’t there,
then most likely the music would have been
something silly or even slapstick-ish. So you
have that.”

He went on: “But also remember, Guaraldi
was not the first pick. It was actually Dave
Brubeck. And also remember, the music was
first composed not for the Christmas special
but for a documentary.”

In 1963, Lee Mendelson, a TV documentary
filmmaker, got the strange, possibly brilliant
idea that, after making a successful documen¬
tary about the greatest baseball player ever,
Willie Mays (A Man Named Willie Mays),
he would make a doc about the worst one
ever, Charlie Brown ( A Boy Named Charlie
Brown). He contacted Schulz about the idea
of a documentary about Charlie Brown, and
Schulz said he was down. But then Mendelson,
a huge jazz fan, needed the right music for the
doc. Who had the right sound for the kid-world
of Peanuts'!

“Mendelson begins looking for someone to
score the documentary on Charlie Brown,”
explains Gonzales. “His first choice is Dave
Brubeck, but he turns down the offer because
he’s too busy. He’s flying high from Take Five.’
Brubeck recommends the vibraphonist Cal
Tjader, but he’s too busy too. So Mendelson
is in a cab crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
The driver is listening to A1 ‘Jazzbo’ Collins’s
jazz show. Collins plays ‘Cast Your Fate to the
Wind.’ It’s Guaraldi’s biggest hit at the time,
and Mendelson thinks: ‘That’s the sound I’m
looking for. That’s it.’ This is what he heard on
the bridge...”

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Taproot Theatre’s production has two musicians, as well as a cast of actors who
bring the cartoon special to life.

Wind” on the piano. “You can already hear the
Peanuts in this music. Melodically it is com¬
plicated, but it’s also open and accessible. The
[Christmas special] does not sway too far from
that sound.” Mendelson eventually contacted
Guaraldi, who was at Fantasy Records, and
they met for lunch at an Italian restaurant,
Original Joe’s, in North Beach, San Fran¬
cisco. Guaraldi took an immediate interest in
the project because he was a fan of the comic
strip. Soon after the lunch, Guaraldi became
a part of a documentary that went nowhere.
After it was completed, no one wanted to air
it on TV The doc was too weird or something.

But in 1965, the soft-drink corporation
Coca-Cola called Mendelson about producing
a Christmas special. Other corporations, like
General Electric, had sponsored hugely suc¬
cessful TV Christmas specials, like the night¬
marish stop-motion animation Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Remdeer, and Coca-Cola wanted a
piece of the action. Mendelson pitched A Char¬
lie Brown Christmas off the top of his dome.
Coca-Cola said they were down. What followed
became an important institution in the cultural
history of the United States.

“During the performance of A Charlie
Brown Christmas, I try to play as much of
Vince as I can,” Gonzales says as he plays the
opening track, “0 Tannenbaum.” “I’m trying
to stay true. But I do do my own interpreta¬
tions.” Gonzales has also released a CD, Linus
and Juicy: A Holiday Album, based on the
music of the show.

“Hear that great interior movement. That’s
jazz. In general, you want to keep the transi¬

tion within a certain distance, because the ear
wants to hear things slide and slide. Vince does
this so well.”

I feel more than understand much of what
Gonzales is saying. “He does this descending
thing, which leads the ear to the next thing,”
he says while playing “My Little Drum.” “And
here he goes into the jazz. And here, you can
do whatever you want. But he throws in a little
blues lick to bring you back when he goes a
little out there. But I do like taking it more
further out there than Vince.”

Gonzales then describes the love of my
life, “Christmas Time Is Here,” step by step.
Despite his technical language, the beautiful
music can still be heard. It’s like looking at
a mathematical formula and hearing Gabriel
Faure’s “String Quartet in E Minor” rise from
the dense combination of numbers. “It’s just
gorgeous,” says Gonzales, who is now in the
meat of the song. “It’s perfect for this kind of
cloudy day. But what’s great about the song
is it’s actually appropriate for any time of the
year. It’s not really just for Christmas.”

Though this is strictly true, I listen to the
song only in the last two months of the year.
Same goes with reading James Joyce’s short
story “The Dead,” which is a Christmas sto¬
ry set in Ireland and ends with snow falling
through the universe. I can read “The Dead”
only in November or December. I do not want
to hear “Christmas Time Is Here” in the mid¬
dle of summer I want to feel its beauty when
the red and gold leaves are falling, when the
days are short, when a little snow taps on the
windowpane. ■

COURTESY OF MACK GROUT

At Fremont Abbey, the music will be performed by the Mack Grout Trio (above),
before a Christmas show by singer-songwriter Kristin Chambers.

WINTER 2017-2018 11

GARETH JONES

Mark Morris is a legendary choreographer.

Dancing About Sgt. Pepper’s

Why most Beatles-related art sucks and why
Mark Morris Dance Group’s Pepperland won’t.

BY SEAN NELSON

L et’s be candid: Under normal
circumstances, the phrase “a
dance performance inspired by Sgt.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
is a good reason to run screaming.

Practically no one does “Beatles-
inspired” art that comes anywhere
close to getting it right. Even if
you’re willing to credit the spectac¬
ular design and staging of the tab¬
leaux in Julie Taymor’s film Across
the Universe, you’ll still have to
surmount the swanning, Auto-Tune-
heavy song arrangements (blame
Moulin Rouge) and the frustrat-
ingly literalistic extrapolations of
the lyrics into character names, plot
points, and mise-en-scenes.

Of course, the same thing was
done, and worse—though also
better, because that’s what camp
means—in the 1978 film debacle Sgt.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,
in which Peter Frampton and the
Brothers Gibb star as Billy Shears
and the Lonely Hearts Club Band.

They, along with Billy’s true love Straw¬
berry Fields, battle to save their hometown
of Heartland, USA (the honorable Mr. Kite,
mayor), from the evil developer Mr. Mustard.

And before that 1978 film came the tour¬
ing stage show Beatlemania, the strange
1976 movie All This and World War II (ar¬
chival 1940s film clips scored by 1970s covers
of 1960s Beatles songs), and dozens, possibly
hundreds, of novels, screenplays, and stage
shows.

They fail because they try to replicate the

irreducible compound of John, Paul, George,
and Ringo—much as John, Paul, George, and
Ringo themselves largely failed to replicate it
after the band broke up. They
were a living, breathing enigma.

They spent the 1970s laboring
under the delusion that their old
band was just a band, and that
they could lead others that might be just as
good. At least one and probably two of them
died without fully realizing that the Beatles
were not chemistry; they were alchemy. They

Mark Morris Dance
Group: Pepperland

Feb 16-18, Moore Theatre

weren’t a moment; they were a year zero.

And their songs weren’t just songs in the
classic sense; they were Beatles songs. This
is why almost no one is good at
covering them. There are a few
exceptions: Stevie Wonder’s
“We Can Work It Out,” Sonic
Youth’s “Within You, Without
You,” the Feelies’ “Everybody’s Got Some¬
thing to Hide Except Me and My Monkey,”
A1 Green’s “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” and
a handful of others. These versions liberate

the songs from the rhythmic lock-
down that defines the original re¬
cordings, playing and singing them
in ways the group never could have
imagined.

Similarly, successful Beatles-
inspired art tends to zoom way in
or wander far afield. Christopher
Munch’s brilliant 1991 short film
The Hours and the Tunes depicts
John Lennon on an ambivalently
homoerotic holiday in Spain with
Brian Epstein in 1963, just before
his world exploded. Kevin Barry’s
inspired 2015 novel Beatlebone lo¬
cates a dissolute Lennon in 1978
on a small, uninhabited Irish island
he’d purchased a decade earlier for
an extended dark night of the soul.

Both works—worth seeking

out—take real events as a starting
point for wild speculation. They’re
both perfectly aware that they are
shadows on a cave wall and that
Lennon, and his cohort, are the light
that generates them. Their subject
is not the Beatles, but life in relation to them,
their essence, their whatness. The actual sub¬
ject is us.

Which brings us back to the subject of this
Sgt. Pepper’s- themed dance performance,
from which I, like you, was perfectly pre¬
pared to run screaming. Then I learned that
the show, Pepperland, was a creation of the
legendary choreographer (and Seattle emi¬
gre) Mark Morris and his frequent musical
collaborator Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus.
It was commissioned by the city of Liverpool

12 SEATTLE ART AND PERFORMANCE

to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
release of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band LP last June.

One look at the clips online, and I was
hooked. This is not some jukebox revue,
with leotarded coryphees swanning around
like plasticene porters in “Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds,” pantomiming shovel work
for “Fixing a Hole,” and impersonating
roosters on “Good Morning, Good Morn¬
ing” while wearing kooky silk military uni¬
forms against a tie-dye backdrop. Far out,
man.

Not a bit of it. Elizabeth Kurtzman’s cos¬
tumes occupy an interesting intersection of
mod and pre-hippie psychedelia, evoking the
collision of Edwardian stuffiness and pop
vibrancy that made mid-1960s London so
exciting to see from afar.

“The very best
advice I can
give you about
dance is: Don’t
go to very
much of it,”
Morris joked.

Iverson’s arrangements emphasize
rhythmic variation, introducing a disorient¬
ing element to these impossibly familiar
songs. He also composed original mate¬
rial to help bolster a 40-minute album into a
60-minute dance show; from the sound of it,
the new compositions are brined in the many
styles of music that inform the rock on Sgt.
Pepper’s —blues, jazz, music hall, and raga
to name a few.

And as for the dancing? I don’t know
what to tell you. I’d be happy to talk about
the Beatles till your ears fall off, but I have
no idea how to describe the movements that
Morris has created for this show, because I
don’t know the first thing about dance.

“That’s okay,” Morris told me on the
phone when I confessed. “The very best ad¬
vice I can give you about dance is: Don’t go
to very much of it.”

Mission accomplished.

“See me only.” He wasn’t laughing, but he
clearly meant for me to be (which is not to
suggest that he was entirely joking).

Fine by me, in any case. But first, why
would an artist of Morris’s stature and clas¬
sical credentials be interested in doing a
piece born of music so familiar and so com¬
paratively simple?

“I thought, if I’m going to do this, I’m
going to do it all the way,” he said. “I’m not
going to do a ‘tribute’ or nostalgia thing or
a reconstruction of the period—or take it
lightly. If it were just a piece de passion, if
I were just showing up to celebrate the Bea¬
tles and their 50 years over a pint—who the
fuck cares about that?”

Now we’re talking.

“They were in their 20s,” Morris en¬
thused. “They were just fooling around with
the Zeitgeist and the vaudeville thing that
was in the air and the Orientalism—I think
the first Indian-style music I ever remember
hearing was that fabulous song of George
Harrison’s [‘Within You, Without You’]. I
was 10 or 11 when it came out, and now I’m
a giant devotee of, principally South Indian
Carnatic music, but Indian music and dance.
That’s not on account of George Harrison,
but it didn’t hurt...”

Our conversation went on for another 20
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His Pulitzer-winning Olio is the first 4-D book of poetry.

BY RICH SMITH

W e’ve been conditioned since childhood to fall
sleep shortly after someone begins reading
to us, so it should come as no surprise that
maintaining the appearance of conscious¬
ness at readings can be a real
struggle, even for adults who love to read.

But that sweet sleepy feeling didn’t slosh
over me the last time I saw Tyehimba Jess in
person. The poet, who is coming back to town
this season for a Seattle Arts & Lectures appearance,
gave a Hugo House reading at Fred Wildlife Refuge
last year. Instead of sheepishly approaching the micro¬
phone with a clutch of coffee-stained paper, he projected
a poem onto one of the venue’s massive walls. It was a
poem from his book Olio. In a newsboy hat and a sharply
trimmed beard, he explained that the poem was about
Bert Williams and George Walker, a black comedic duo
who performed minstrel shows under the name “Two

Real Coons.” He also told the crowd the poem was a
“syncopated ghazal” (a new take on an old Persian form)
whose lines could be read in several different orders and
still make sense. He then proceeded to blow everyone’s
mind by proving that claim to be true.

He performed the poem, or rather he played
the poem, as if it were some kind of instrument
he was trying to teach us to use. He pointed to
the first line of the poem and read it, then jumped
across the page and read the 25th line, then jumped back
to the top of the page and read the third line, his hand
crisscrossing the page in a star pattern. He looked like a
magician trying to conjure some genie. He was pumped up
to show us this kind of reading, as if he were still—after 10
years of working on Olio —still genuinely excited about the
possibilities of meaning contained in its pages.

On the coffee table and in the pages of press re¬
leases, Olio is a 230-page book of poems about African

Tyehimba Jess

Sun March 4,
McCaw Hall

American music made between the end of the Civil War
and the beginning of World War II. It won the Pulitzer
Prize for poetry in 2017. But in the hands of readers, it’s
a humming block of space-time, one that comes with a
three-page bibliography and perforated pages you can
tear out, fold like origami, and read 50 different ways.

By page 60, you’ll be ready
to declare Tyehimba Jess a
wizard. That paid of the book
has a series of what Jess
calls “syncopated sonnets.”

They’re persona poems
about Millie and Christine
McKoy, conjoined twins who
were born slaves in North
Carolina and who eventually
toured the globe on their own
as successful performers.

The section opens with
artist Jessica Lynne Brown’s
contour drawing of a but¬
terfly, a symbol of radical
transformation and a figure
that’s symmetrical across
the X and Y axes, but not
perfectly, which is precisely
like the poems that follow.

The sonnets, like their sub¬
jects, are conjoined. The left
half of the sonnet tells one
side of a story, the right half
of the sonnet tells a different
side of that story, and you
get the whole story when
you read the lines straight
across the page. They also, just for fun, make sense when
you read them down the page, up the page, and then up
and then down the page. AND! They actually rhyme, un¬
like so many other contemporary “sonnets.”

Take the poem “Millie-Christine: On Display.” On
the left half of the poem, Millie tells the story of the in¬
dignities that she and her twin have faced at the hands
of scientists and medical examiners. On the right half,
Christine tells the story of the indignities she and her
twin have faced as performers. Read the left side and the
right side together, and you have a defiant poem about
how the conjoined twins see themselves not as “freaks”
but rather as a miracle created by God. However, when
you read the poem down the page and then back up the
page, the tone and the point of the poem shifts. The defi¬
ance settles down into a kind of prayer of gratitude for
a God who would graciously outfit them to endure the
trials of performing onstage as members of the first gen¬
eration of freed slaves in the United States: “We count
the blessings of our doubled shell.”

That’s not all. As you continue through the section,
Jess alternates these sonnets with short passages from
the McKoy twins’ autobiography, so that their written
voices syncopate with the ones Jess constructed for
them, until—ta-da—you open the first fold-out page to
reveal that the sonnets you’ve been reading this whole
time are actually individual parts of one mega syncopat¬
ed sonnet called “McKoy Twins Syncopated Star” that’s
actually shaped like the butterfly illustration at the be¬
ginning. Not only do the lines in the individual sonnets
read in this split and up-and-down, but the series of po¬
ems themselves read this way That’s amazing.

I know very few poets who use narrative time and
space like this, and zero who do it with the level of com¬
mand that Jess displays in this sequence. Before Olio,
the world of page poetry had only three dimensions.
With this book, Jess has drawn a tesseract.

Aside from being really cool, creating this 4-D the¬
atrical production, this living block of time, is a way for
Jess to return that time to those black performers whose
work was, in many cases, lost to it. It’s historical stew¬
ardship of the first order. And it’s beautiful.

There is much more to say, but I have run out of
room. The most important thing to know is that Jess
will be performing parts of the book for Seattle Arts
& Lectures at McCaw Hall on March 4, and you should
buy your tickets now. Bring a friend. Olio constitutes
a scientific advancement in the art of poetry. If that
level of achievement doesn’t do it for you, Jess’s sto¬
rytelling will. ■

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It has
perforated
pages you
can tear
out, fold
like origami,
and read
50 different
ways.

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The Most Important Seattle
Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of

Al Smith’s eye-opening, boundary-hopping photos at the
Museum of History & Industry are a must-see.

BY JULIA RABAN

W hen Al Smith was born
in Seattle in 1914, black
residents were less
than 1 percent of the
city’s population. He was the
first black student to attend
O’Dea, the private Catholic
boys’ school on First Hill.
He was the only black mem¬
ber of his Boy Scout troop.

Seattle on
the Spot: The
Photographs
of Al Smith

Museum of History
& Industry
Through June 17

Smith was given his first camera in 1926,
but photography was never more than a hob¬
by, something he made time for after he was
done with work at the Bremerton shipyard or
the post office. Any money he made from sell¬
ing the photos he used to buy more equipment.
Ultimately, Smith’s “hobby” created a prolific
and varied historical record that can easily
compete with the works of the 20th century’s
most celebrated documentary photographers.

He had a talent for capturing social moments,
as is immediately clear in early photographs
of friends, classmates,
and cheering crowds at
a Ubangi Blackhawks
football game. By the
middle of World War II,
he was spending most
of his free time taking
pictures of the Central
District and Seattle’s
rapidly expanding black community.

If he is known for anything, it’s as a docu¬
mentary photographer of Seattle’s short¬
lived Jackson Street jazz scene: the Leon
Vaughan Band caught in a moment of laugh¬
ter, the teenage Ernestine Anderson concen¬
trating into a microphone, the one and only
Duke Ellington grinning at the piano while
bassist Oscar Pettiford takes a swig of whis¬
key, a blissful Lionel Hampton mid-leap and
fully airborne while conducting his band. The
jazz photos are lively, striking, and unparal¬
leled—with recognizable names, flashy out¬
fits, booze-soaked faces—and they offer juicy
details of a part of Seattle that was ignored at
the time by the white media.

But those photographs are a tiny frac¬
tion of his output. He made more than forty
thousand images of ceremonies, fraterni¬
ties, house parties, nightclubs, sport teams,
political groups, family gatherings, parades,
weddings, funerals, local businesses, and
neighborhood events in the Central District,
where Seattle’s black community had to live
pursuant to restrictive racial housing cov¬
enants. (From 1910 to 1980, you could isolate
Seattle’s “black community” on a map.) Dur¬
ing his lifetime, Smith’s collection was kept in
a variety of grocery bags, boxes, and drawers.
His wife, Isabelle Smith, told their children:
“When your father passes, be sure to bury
that camera with him. Because if you don’t,
he’s coming back to get it.”

After his death in 2008, the images were
donated to the Museum of History & Indus¬
try, and staffers and volunteers have been
sorting and cataloging them for years. Now,
for the very first time, MOHAI is hosting an
appropriately hefty retrospective of Smith’s

16 SEATTLE ART AND PERFORMANCE

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MOHAI/AL SMITH COLLECTION

Al Smith aboard a ship circa 1938 (far left); Smith’s portrait of Duke Ellington at the Civic Auditorium (now called McCaw Hall)
in 1949 (above); a candid shot of Smith’s friends and family vacationing on the Washington coast (below right); and a photograph
of a toddler’s birthday party in the Central District circa 1950 (below left).

artwork, on exhibit until June 2018.

The show was curated by Howard Giske,
MOHAI’s curator of photography and Smith’s
longtime friend. One of the many local histo¬
rians, artists, and community leaders who
collaborated on it is Al Smith’s son Dr. Butch
Smith, who writes in a companion book print¬
ed by University of Washington Press that his
father had told him that he was “doing noth¬
ing special, just taking pictures.” Don’t let
his humility fool you. This is an essential and
shockingly overlooked historical record.

Walking through the exhibit takes you
from biographical information (including pho¬
tos of the light-skinned “grandmother” who
helped the family acquire housing) to a faux
photographic darkroom, and then through
Smith’s inspirations and community con¬
nections. Then you proceed into a nightclub
with music, period clothing, and activities in¬
cluding “spike your own cocktail.” Then you
walk into several more galleries featuring
scanned prints, and finally into a reflection
room with Central District oral histories, re¬
lated artworks, and transparent prints of sev¬
eral of Smith’s photos hung inside the window
frames. The afternoon I visited, the sun was
particularly strong and the black-and-white
scenes in the windows—a pickup basketball
game in the Central District and a boy riding
his bike—blurred into the bright particulars
of the current landscape outside the museum,
including Lake Union ship masts, bright
clouds, and the trees over Eastlake.

MOHAI’s commitment to interactive ac¬
tivities is sometimes unbearably kitschy. The
nightclub games and darkroom setup are
arguably too cute, but the final room (which
includes a station where you can record your
own stories of the neighborhood and an old-
fashioned telephone you pick up to listen to
accounts by artists, historians, and even Al
and Isabelle Smith) is powerfully assembled.

“There’s a concern among many of the old-
timers that we’ve lost a sense of the old black
community in the Central District,” Butch
Smith told me.

Persistent segregation and willful igno¬
rance mean that many Seattle residents are
aware of the loss, but they don’t seem to know
what exactly has disappeared. Archival Seattle
Times headlines from the middle of the cen¬
tury discuss the Central District’s “unhealthy
look” and “bum rap,” going on to describe at¬
tempts at “buffing up” the neighborhood’s im¬
age—the precursor to gentrification and rising
housing costs. A two-part investigative series
published in Seattle magazine in the mid-
1960s wanted to describe the neighborhood
with balance and empathy, and yet part two is

titled “Perplexity and Frustration Character¬
ize the World in Which Negroes Live.” Even
the mainstream (that is to say, white) media
coverage from the 1980s and ’90s focused on
stories of violence, drugs, and prostitution.

Al Smith’s photographs don’t fit this sad-
sack narrative. “You think of ‘segregated
Seattle,’ and you think about the poor peo¬
ple who lived in that terrible ghetto,” Butch
Smith chuckled. “And yet you look at all of
these pictures with people having fun and
laughing... he captured people having fun.
He captured people happy, enjoying life and
doing things together as a community.”

These are images of achievement (small-
business owners, pageant winners, successful
musicians, civil rights activists, performers,

pilots, athletes) as well as leisure, love, and
ordinary bliss. A few images show conflict and
pain, like the weeping pallbearers at Royal
Esquire Club member Al Herre’s funeral,
or the immediate aftermath of a nightclub
brawl. Some of Smith’s strongest images are
of couples or groups engaged in conversation,
smiles wide and weird and arresting, so en¬
chanted by the company they’re keeping that
Smith seems invisible. “If he walked in here
right now, you’d see him but you wouldn’t re¬
ally be all that focused on him,” Butch said.
“He’d be five feet away, observing you.”

From Walker Evans to Diane Arbus, many
famous documentary photographers created
intimacy through intrusion. Their presence as
artists is palpable; you can see their subjects ►

These photos
are an essential
and shockingly
overlooked
historical
record.

WINTER 2017-2018 17

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MOHAI/AL SMITH COLLECTION

Smith’s photo of a wedding party circa 1953 (above); an unidentified couple at the Black & Tan Club, which was located at 12th and
Jackson and was Seattle’s leading jazz nightclub from 1922 to 1966 (below left); and an unidentified couple at the Rocking Chair,
an after-hours jazz club at 14th and Yesler (below right).

■4 reacting, uncomfortable, offering a kind of
knee-jerk shyness that films well and provokes
emotion in the viewer. The son of Floyd Bur¬
roughs Jr. (whom Walker Evans photographed
for Let Us Nmv Praise Famous Men) said
of Evans’s photos: “Everybody wants some¬
thing... They were cast in a light that they
couldn’t do any better, that they were doomed,
ignorant.” Most of those photos didn’t show the
dust bowl farmers living their lives, but pre¬
sented them clothing, possessions, and physical
trauma as part of a politically important horror
show of poverty.

Al’s wife,

Isabelle Smith,
told their
children: “When
your father
passes, be sure
to bury that
camera with
him. Because if
you don’t, he’s
coming back to
get it.”

A1 Smith’s work, by contrast, lifts up his
subjects without unnecessary pomp. He
shows intimacy and vulnerability without
judgment; the results feel honest and not
manipulative. Smith didn’t achieve this by
befriending every subject or asking their
permission before taking pictures. He seems
to have been led by his artistic eye, drawn to
emotional expression and guided by his own
social aptitude and humility. Sometimes his
candid background subjects catch him in ac¬
tion—with curiosity, openness, and occasional
flirtation, their eyes flashing a look that says
“come closer” not “back off.”

Smith photographed Seattle for more than
six decades, but MOHAI’s show Seattle cm the
Spot focuses on the 1940s to 1960s: decades
of growth, upheaval, and social paradoxes.
The idea of a “racial utopia” among the ev¬
ergreens (yes, there is an extensive history
of white-nationalist organizing in this region)
was thoroughly shattered when the number

of black Seattleites grew to 10,000 in 1945,
15,000 in 1950, and 27,000 in 1960.

In response, brand-new “Whites Only”
signs appeared in local businesses. White
neighborhoods popped up in every direction
while the Central District became more and
more crowded. The community was both
splintered and strengthened. Black workers
gained limited opportunities at Boeing while
facing racism of a new, unabashed intensity.
Policing was either violent or nonexistent in
the Central District, and government corrup¬
tion spread citywide, which made profitable
and energetic neighborhood nightlife pos¬
sible. Being black excluded people from most
kinds of housing and employment, but all

Seattleites could entertain fantasies of equal¬
ity at nightclubs in black and Asian neighbor¬
hoods, sites of real-life “race-mixing” outside
the context of service work. By the 1960s,
however, almost all the nightlife venues had
been shut down. (Author Paul de Barros, who
wrote a book about Seattle jazz featuring pho¬
tographs by Smith, references a widespread
idea that the crackdowns were part of an Ital¬
ian mob scheme to control local gambling.)

Seattle on the Spot does an excellent job of
showing the depth and breadth of Smith’s sub¬
jects, his eye for social life that ranged from
churches to bars to birthday parties, and the
precision, skill, and love he brought to this cru¬
cial “passion project.” The show leaves politi¬

cal consequences up to the viewer but under¬
scores the history that must be reckoned with
before the interwoven stories of the city can be
understood. It also hints at the way that an os¬
tracized community with a variety of cultural
backgrounds faced racism at every level, cre¬
ated then' own set of institutions, racked up ac¬
complishments despite the officials and locals
who ignored or reviled them, and indulged in
debauchery, love, pride, performance, vulner¬
ability, excellence, and normalcy.

“It’s frustrating because there’s not much
you can do about the loss, other than alert
people to what the community was,” Butch
told me. “But it’s gone.” Thankfully, we have
this show. ■

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ART

By Joule Zelman, Emily
Pothast, and Julia Raban

Museums

Bainbridge Island Museum
of Art

550 Winslow Way E, Bainbridge Island,
206-842-4451, biartmuseum.org, daily

Fall/Winter Exhibitions (Through
Feb 4): The island museum offers
a variety of solo shows, includ¬
ing Robert McCauley's American
Fictions paintings, Nadine Kariya's
The Hammer and the Peony (metal
objects and jewelry), friendly folk
art by Frank Renlie in Smile, Heikki
Seppa's metalwork, Paul Poison's
landscape paintings in Out Here and
Strata, and Lucy Congdon Hanson's
14-foot metal fork sculpture.

Bellevue Arts Museum

510 Bellevue WayNE, Bellevue, 425-519-
0770, bellevuearts.org, Tues-Sun

★ Walter McConnell: Itinerant
Edens (Through Feb 11): Artist
and ceramic art professor Walter
McConnell is known for doing
something unusual with his clay
pieces: not firing them. His wet
ceramic pieces are often intricate,
complicated, and enormous, and
anyone looking at them would never
question how "finished" they are.

His latest exhibit, Itinerant Edens: A
Measure of Disorder, looks terrifying.
McConnell took full-body scans of
live models, made 3D plaster molds
based on their bodies, and cast ter¬
racotta clay models from the molds.
He then created nature-inspired
pedestals, put the human figures on
top, and sealed the scenes in tall, thin
terrariums. The end result looks like

a dystopian version of the Natural
History Museum. To maximize uneasi¬
ness, visit at the end of the show's
run—because the pieces are unfired,
they will change and morph over the
course of the exhibit.

★ Humaira Abid: Searching for
Home (Through March 25): Born

in Pakistan and based in Seattle,
Humaira Abid works in wood carving
and miniature painting—two very
different mediums, related by their
capacity to hold rich, meticulous
detail. Her previous bodies of work
have tackled sociocultural norms,
gender roles, and relationships,
often expressing very intimate and
personal narratives. Abid's first solo
museum exhibition in the United
States, Searching for Home, is a
site-specific installation revolving
around the stories of immigrants and
refugees in the Pacific Northwest.
Political yet poignant, this work
renders the humanity of families
affected by far-reaching forces into
magnificent, stunning forms, ep

★ Making our Mark: Art by Pratt
Teaching Artists (Through April 8):
The Pratt Fine Arts Center is a true
resource for the community. It's the
most grassroots, accessible place to
make art of all kinds, from starting
out in prints or clay or metal sculp¬
tures, to using large-scale or arcane
equipment to realize a grand project
that will be exhibited at a museum.
And over the years they've had an
incredible roster of teaching artists,
including Buster Simpson, Marita
Dingus, Mary Anne Carter, Preston
Singletary, and Cappy Thompson.
Making our Mark will showcase

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When/Where: February 15-May 13 at
Seattle Art Museum.

pieces by more than 250 past and
present Pratt teaching artists, includ¬
ing those listed above, reminding
local arts lovers exactly how much
they owe to Pratt.

Burke Museum

University of Washington, 17th
Ave NE & NE 45th St, 206-616-3962,
Washington.edu/burkemuseum, daily

Beauty in the Evidence

(Through Jan 14): The University
of Washington's Natural Science
Illustration graduating class will
display their crowning works in the
Burke Room.

Testing, Testing 1-2-3 (Through Feb
18): Some of the coolest parts of the
Burke Museum are inaccessible to the
public—neither their vast collections
nor their research are easy to see or
appreciate as a guest. The museum is
getting ready to change that at the
same time they prepare for an even
bigger change: the creation of an
entirely new Burke Museum opening
in 2019 that they hope will serve and
educate the public better (which is
exciting—the old Burke is a hard act
to follow). Testing, Testing 1-2-3 is
an exhibit that demos some of their
ideas about how they might engage
visitors at the new museum, includ¬
ing highlighting behind-the-scenes
work and letting guests grab a sneak
peek into their labs.

Frye Art Museum

704 Terry Ave, 206-622-9250,
fryemuseum.org, Tues-Sun

Hana Hamplova: Meditations on
Paper (Through Dec 31): As digital

media consumption
becomes more and
more ubiquitous,

Czech photographer
Hana Hamplova's series
of 19 photographs
emphasizes the cultural, political, and
artistic significance (and impossible
fragility) of paper. Meditations on
Paper is inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's
novella Too Loud a Solitude, about
a wise old hermit who works as a
paper crusher and obsessively hoards
the works he's told to destroy.

★ Manuel Alvarez Bravo:
Mexico's Poet of Light (Through
Dec 31): See 23 photographs by
renowned Mexican photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who is known
for his seven-decade career captur¬
ing—among many other themes—
urban life, the nude form, folk art,
and the work of muralists including
Diego Rivera. Many of Bravo's images
come across as anthropological pho¬
tojournalism, and others focus closely
on texture and shadows, zooming in
to create abstract, sometimes surreal
mini-scenes removed from culture
and politics. This exhibit will feature
images that "show the artist's abil¬
ity to synthesize motifs of Mexican
religious and indigenous works and
plant forms (such as agave leaves)
with a Modernist approach to image
making."

'k Mike Kelley: Day Is Done

(Through Dec 31): Mike Kelley was
a highly regarded artist known for
using video, performance, drawing,
found objects, textiles, sound, and
site-specific installation to investigate
the relationship between popular
culture and the American subcon¬
scious before his untimely death in
2012. Created in 2005, Day Is Done is
an ambitious, overwhelming musical-
film installation in 32 chapters that

uses "extracurricular activities"
culled from hundreds of high-school
yearbooks as a point of departure
to illuminate the dark contours of
adolescence, concealed trauma, and
memory through evidence of per¬
sonal and institutional ritual, ep

Frye Salon (Through Jan 21): This
exhibit recreates the personal gal¬
lery of Charles and Emma Frye with
a collection of paintings from the
Frye's founding collection.

★ Tavares Strachan: Always,
Sometimes, Never (Jan 27-April
15): Born and raised in the Bahamas
and currently based in New York,
Tavares Strachan is a conceptual art¬
ist whose work in a diverse range of
media investigates the overlapping
domains of science, technology, and
history—in particular the hidden
stories and agendas behind common
cultural narratives. His signature
media include neon sculpture and
projected lights, often presented
alongside reflecting pools that sug¬
gest the distortion of perception and
reveal invisible implications. Strachan
has exhibited widely, including at
the 2013 Venice Biennale. Always,
Sometimes, Never is the first presen¬
tation of his work in Seattle, ep

k r Alison Marks: One Gray Hair

(Through Feb 4): The Frye contin¬
ues its outstanding track record of
programming multimedia investi¬
gations of identity, tradition, and
history with Alison Marks's first solo
museum exhibition. Rejecting the
notion that Native art must func¬
tion spiritually to be considered
legitimate, Marks uses unexpected
materials and imagery drawn from
contemporary internet culture to
reimagine customary Tlingit forms
as something fluid, playful, and
made with whatever materials are
available. Through her work, Marks

constantly asserts that "culture is not
stagnant"—new mediums create an
ongoing context for new forms, ep

Ko Kirk Yamahira (Feb 17-June 3):
Ko Kirk Yamahira delicately dissects
canvas in a play on the distinctions
between two- and three-dimensional
art forms and an exploration of color
and texture.

Henry Art Gallery

15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 206-543-
2280, henryart.org, Wed-Sun

★ The Time. The Place.
Contemporary Art from the
Collection (Through April 22): To
celebrate its 90th anniversary, the
Henry will display a diverse spread of
more than 50 works from their con¬
temporary collection. The theme is
essentially "time and place"—broad
enough to justify pulling out all their
most interesting and beloved pieces,
regardless of subject matter.

Museum of Glass

1801 Dock St, Tacoma, 253-284-4719,
museumofglass.org, Wed-Sat

Michael E. Taylor: Traversing
Parallels (Through May 12): See
colorful, geometric, and fractal glass
works by Michael Taylor, whose
inspirations include "the formal
quality of geometry, the Higgs
boson particle, or the moral implica¬
tions of artificial intelligence."

Complementary Contrasts: The
Glass and Steel Sculptures of
Albert Paley (Through Sept 3): This
is the first comprehensive exhibit to
focus on glass and steel works by
renowned modernist metalsmith and
sculptor Albert Paley, who began his
career making tiny sculptures (jew¬
elry) and has since gained recogni¬
tion for much larger works, including
several expansive public installations.

Museum of History & Industry

(MOHAI)

860 Terry Ave N, 206-324-1126,
mohai.org, daily

Hammons House (Ongoing):
MOHAI welcomes the exquisite tiny
Colonial Revival mansion designed
by Claire Bagley Hammons,

Frederick Dent Hammons, and
Joseph S. Cote and built in 1948.

★ Seattle on the Spot: The
Photographs of Al Smith

(Ongoing): According to Al Smith's
2008 obituary in the Seattle Times,
Smith never considered himself a
professional photographer. But his
photographs of the Central District,
jazz clubs, and African American
community in Seattle number in
the tens of thousands, and their
quality, depth, and breadth are
unparalleled.

Museum of Northwest Art

121 S First St, La Conner, 360-466-4446,
museumofnwart.org, daily

Hidden Narrative (Through
Jan 7): This gallery show is set
up to encourage Visual Thinking
Strategies to engage the viewers,
asking them to decide what narra¬
tive and meaning can be teased out
of the artwork.

Mel Katz: Choices (Through Jan
7): Portland-based abstract artist
Mel Katz began as a painter before
moving into three dimensions. His
plastic, wood, and steel sculptures
are often colorful and vaguely
organic.

Raven Skyriver: Submerge

(Through Jan 7): See glass art realis¬
tically depicting marine animals by
Stanwood artist Raven Skyriver.

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Museum of Pop Culture
(MoPOP)

325 Fifth Ave N, 206-770-2700,
mopop.org, daily

★ Scared to Death (Ongoing):
Scared to Death showcases more
than 50 key objects from famous
horror movies, including Freddy
Krueger's sweater, Pamela Voorhees'
severed head, the camcorder from
The Blair Witch Project, Buffy's "Mr.
Pointy" stake, and the axe Jack
Torrance/Jack Nicholson uses to bust
down the bathroom door in The
Shining. In addition to the props,
they'll also have films, oral history
interviews, and interactive photo ops.

Northwest African American
Museum

2300 S Massachusetts St, 206-518-6000,
naamnw.org, Wed-Sun

Lisa Myers Bulmash: You're
Not From Around Here, Are
You? (Through April 8): Lisa Myers
Bulmash's paintings, collages, and
mixed-media works reflect on the
experience of African Americans in
the Pacific Northwest, including "the
hyper-visibility of Black bodies, and
the notion of racial authenticity in
overwhelmingly white spaces."

Olympic Sculpture Park

2901 Western Ave, 206-654-3100,
seattleartmuseum.org, daily

Spencer Finch: The Western
Mystery (Through March 3):
Spencer Finch (whom you might
remember from his 2014 South Lake
Union installation that featured a
glass canopy above Vulcan's false
forest, or from the watercolor
installation over CenturyLink Field
that captured the feeling of sunset)
has created another work inspired
by light and color. This time, his
suspended glass panes that slowly
rotate at the Olympic Sculpture
Park create "a moving abstraction
of a sunset, based on actual sunsets
photographed from Seattle over
Puget Sound."

Seattle Art Museum

1300 First Ave, 206-625-8900,
seattleartmuseum.org, Wed-Sun

★ Sondra Perry: Eclogue for [In]
habilitability (Dec 8-July 1): New
media artist Sondra Perry, winner
of the 2017 Gwendolyn Knight and
Jacob Lawrence Prize for early-career
black artists, will return to Seattle
with an immersive video and sculp¬
ture show that questions representa¬
tion, oppression, and black identity.

Extreme Nature: Two Landscape
Paintings from the Age of
Enlightenment (Dec 23-Dec 9,

2018): Discover two new paintings
in the museum's collection, newly
found, including the dramatic
French seascape Shipwreck off the
Coast of Alaska (1806) by Louis-
Philippe Crepin—the first of the
Parisian's works to be exhibited
in a US museum. The other land¬
scape on view will be Eruption of
Mount Vesuvius with the Ponte
della Maddalena in the Distance
from around 1770 by Pierre-Jacques
Volaire.

★ Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect

(Through Jan 15): Born in
Pennsylvania 100 years ago, Andrew
Wyeth is an American realist painter
associated with regionalism. His
paintings and drawings generally
include figures—sometimes in a land¬
scape, sometimes in contemplatively
lit interiors—that simultaneously
present drama and stillness. In the
1970s and '80s, he painted more
than 247 studies of a German-born
woman named Helga Testorf, result¬
ing in some of the most intimate and
compelling examples of 20th-century
portraiture. Organized in partnership
with the Brandywine River Museum,

Claire Cowie

Why you should see it: Cowie is
one of Seattle's most brilliant artists—and
no two shows of hers look alike.

When/Where: January 4—February 10
at James Harris Gallery.

Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect pres¬
ents more than 100 works by this
quintessential American artist, ep

★ Figuring History: Robert
Colescott, Kerry James Marshall,
Mickalene Thomas (Feb 15-May
13): Figuring History displays large-
scale history paintings by African
American artists Robert Colescott
(1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall
(born 1955), and Mickalene Thomas
(born 1971), each of whom offers
alternatives to—and even under¬
mines—traditional European
American depictions of pivotal
moments in our country's story. From
Robert Colescott's cartoon-like image
of a black Washington crossing the
Delaware to Mickalene Thomas's
feminist nudes, these artists question
the chokehold of white culture on
the imagination of the past.

★ African Renaissances (Through
March 4): This exhibit highlights the
power of the African continent by
imagining a futuristic renaissance,
featuring regalia and furnishings
that were originally seen in the
courts of the Benin, Asante, Kom,
and Kuba kingdoms, alongside

art created by Maasai, Fulani, and
Ndebele women, as well as contribu¬
tions—including a music video—
from Baba Tendai, a contemporary
musical leader living in Seattle.

★ Everyday Poetics (Through
June 17): These works by Central
and South American artists are
constructed from humble materi¬
als—from dust cloths to soda cans to
lottery tickets— to make sculptural
poetry shaped by social, resistance-
related, and religious themes. The
artists include Cildo Meireles and
Sonia Gomes, who began their
careers under Brazilian dictatorship
in the 1960s; Fritzia Irizar of Mexico,
a conceptual artist; and many others.

Talents and Beauties: Art of
Women in Japan (Through July
15): See artwork created by women
in Japan at this exhibit showcasing
"women's self-fashioning," featur¬
ing literature-inspired paintings,
prints, kimono, and lacquerware.

Tacoma Art Museum

1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, 253-272-4258,
tacomaartmuseum.org, Tues-Sun

★ Selections from the Anne
Gould Hauberg Collection

(Through Dec 31): In 2016, Jen
Graves wrote, "Anne Gould
Hauberg, the arts patron who knew
how to crack a joke and command
a room, and who also had one of
those exquisite Matisse drawings
facing her when she sat on her
couch at home, died Monday at age
98. I liked her very much. She was
no stuffy snob. She was a whip. She
is already very missed." Hauberg co¬
founded the Pilchuck Glass School
and was known for her incredible
art collection—at this exhibit, see a
selection of the works she amassed.

★ Two Centuries of American
Still-Life Painting: The Frank and
Michelle Hevrdejs Collection

(Through Jan 7): At this exhibit, see
influential still-life paintings from
the past 200 years created by art¬
ists including James Peale, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and
Wayne Thiebaud.

Animals: Wild and Captured
in Bronze (Opens Jan 27): Bronze
sculptors honor the diverse crea¬
tures that inhabit the lands west of
the Mississippi River.

The Art of Framing (Through
Jan 28): Look outside the box at this
exhibit featuring gorgeous frames
from the 19th and early 20th cen¬
turies.

The Dynamic American West:
Highlights from the Haub Family
Collection (Through Jan 28): See
romantic tropes from the American
West at this exhibit featuring works
from TAM's Haub Family Collection.

Immigrant Artists and the
American West (Feb 3-June 14):
This exhibition helps rediscover sto¬
ries and experiences of immigrant
artists in the Western expansion
with works by people from Austria,
Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark,
England, France, Germany, Ireland,
Russia, and Sweden.

Native Portraiture: Power and
Perception (Feb 10-Feb 10, 2019):
This exhibit invites you to contem¬
plate structural oppression and
appropriation of Native subjects in
portraits by non-Native people.

Places to Call Home: Western
Settlements (Feb 17-Feb 10, 2019):
In this exhibit, see representations
of Western cities throughout their
history and development.

Winter in the West (Feb 17-Feb
10, 2019): In another Tacoma Art
Museum exhibition that explores
variants to traditional images of the
West, you'll see hardy inhabitants
of dramatic winter settings, from
people enduring rainy season on the
coast to snowy and icy conditions in
the mountains.

:k Zhi Lin: In Search of the Lost
History of Chinese Migrants and
the Transcontinental Railroads

(Through Feb 18): Seattle artist
and UW professor Zhi Lin's work
has drawn on Chinese-American
history to explore uncomfortable
truths as well as quotidian reali¬
ties. Christopher Knight at The Los
Angeles Times described some of his
work in 2009: "At Koplin Del Rio,
most of Lin's landscape drawings
are made on sketch-pad-size paper
using pencil and thinned Chinese
ink. Their modest scale and simple
materials yield a sense of the artist
sketching on-site, as if taking picto¬
rial rather than written notes of
what he sees — a method employed
by countless 19th century artists
from the American East traveling
through the Western frontier. Lin
could have used a camera (period
photographs of the Chinese laborers
at work are not scarce), but draw¬
ings connect eye to mind to hand in
a powerful and thoughtful way."

★ Familiar Faces 8f New Voices:
Surveying Northwest Art (Through
June 1): This exhibit promises a sur¬
vey of Northwest art that will high¬
light work by both big names and
less recognizable figures, and will
offer a chronological take on visual
expression in the region. See art by a

wealth of significant regional paint¬
ers and sculptors like Dale Chihuly,
Roger Shimomura, Patti Warashina,
Barbara Earl Thomas, Jacob
Lawrence, Nancy Mee, and many
others you may not have heard of.

Wing Luke Museum

719 S King St, 206-623-5124,
wingluke.org, Tues-Sun

Pacific First (Dec 7-Nov 30): This
exhibit focuses on Pacific Islander
artists, incorporating tradition while
looking to the future.

Come Out and Play: Adventures
in the Neighborhood (Through Jan
8): This exhibit explores discovery,
imagination, and play in Seattle's
Chinatown-International District.

★ Year of Remembrance:
Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner

(Through Feb 11): Former Stranger
visual art critic Jen Graves wrote that
Roger Shimomura's 2009 exhibi¬
tion Yellow Terror contained "art
that he hopes will lose its power."
Unfortunately, his work (paintings
crowded with snarling Japanese ste¬
reotypes, prints about American con¬
centration camps, and collections of
racist objects) has become intensely
relevant. Shimomura's pop-art social
critiques are highlighted alongside
Lawrence Matsuda's poetry in Year of
Remembrance, a show that features
history, writing, video, and visual
art centered on Shimomura's and
Matsuda's own experiences of intern¬
ment. JULIA RABAN

Day in the Life of Bruce Lee: Do
You Know Bruce? Part 3 (Through
Feb 11): The third exhibition in the
series Do You Know Bruce explores
his "every day" and personal life,
from his "habits, routines, and work¬
out strategies to his written and
visual art, reading, and time with
family and friends."

★ Teardrops That Wound: The
Absurdity of War (Through May
20): Portland artist Yukiyo Kawano
is a third generation hibaku-sha —a
survivor of the 1945 bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Her life-
size replica of 'Little Boy' (the bomb
that destroyed Hiroshima) is crafted
from kimono silk and strands of her
own hair—containing DNA bearing
witness to this history. In Teardrops
that Wound, curated by SuJ'n Chon,
Kawano's work stands in dialogue
with the work of other Asian Pacific
American artists who use transfor¬
mative strategies to deconstruct the
horror associated with the imagery
of war. ep

What's in your cup? Community
Brewed Culture (Through Sept
16): Learn the history, science, evolu¬
tion, and issues behind Asian Pacific
American beverages and "how they
can play an important role in creat¬
ing community."

Galleries

4Culture Gallery

101 Prefontaine PIS, 206-296-7580,
4culture.org, Mon-Fri

★ Satpreet Kahlon: Production
Valued (Through Dec 7): Satpreet
Kahlon creates beautiful installations
in striking, sumptuous materials
that call into question the unseen
boundaries and tacit assumptions
that permeate art-world dynamics,
often incorporating a critique of how
the exhibition venues that show her
work are complicit in these systems.
For the group show BorderLands, her
installation contained a tongue-in-
cheek takedown of the premise of
running an exhibition about national
borders in tandem with a commercial
art fair. Her 4Culture show features,
among many other things, two
similarly shot videos of the artist and
her mother mopping their kitchen
floors. That one is considered "art"
while the other is typically regarded
as a mere gesture of domestic labor
speaks volumes about the kind of
production we value, and as a result,
the individuals we tend to ascribe
cultural value to. ep

:k Gazelle Samizay: My shadow
is a word writing itself across
time (Through Dec 31): This exhibi¬
tion by Gazelle Samizay embodies
the fear of oppression that still
haunts ethnic minorities in the

United States. The Kabul-born artist
journeyed to Manzanar, California,
the site of the biggest Japanese
internet camp, and her photo
exhibit explores the space, its his¬
tory of exploitation and cruelty,
and its natural geography, which to
Samizay is reminiscent of that of her
native Afghanistan.

★ Francisco Guerrero: Loaves
and Fishes (Jan 4-25): There is a
growing movement of conservative
Christians who are withdrawing
from society to live off the grid, pre¬
paring for the impending environ¬
mental and social catastrophes that
they know are coming, since their
own political beliefs and lifestyles
have helped bring them about.
Seattle University professor Francisco
Guerrero examines these "prep-
per" systems through drawing and
sculpture, connecting contemporary
evangelical aspirations with the
ancient growing and gathering tech¬
niques of pre-Columbian Mexico.
This exhibition features functional
animal traps, among other things.
Come hungry? ep

Marilyn Montufar: Transcending
Identity: impressions of people,
community, and landscapes (Feb
1-22): This photo series highlights
representation of people too rarely
seen in mainstream culture.

Kathryn Thibault: The
Encroaching Field (March 1-29):
Kathryn Thibault's intimate sculp¬
tures "reference the growth and
interaction of living bodies and
mechanical structures," simultane¬
ously employing and exposing the
shortcoming of data analysis.

Abmeyer + Wood

1210 Second Ave, 206-628-9501,
abmeyerwood.com, Mon-Sun

Christopher David White (Dec
7-Jan 13): Christopher David White's
meticulous clay sculptures explore
textures of wood, metal, and flesh—
often in unexpected ways, such as
human hearts and torsos apparently
carved from trees.

Oben Abright (Feb 1-26): Abright,
an alumnus of the Lorenzo de'

Medici Institute of Art of Florence
and the California College of Arts,
creates sculpture portraits of ordinary
people out of glass that seem illumi¬
nated from within.

Catherine Eaton Skinner (March
1-31): Skinner's contemplative, care¬
fully balanced nature paintings and
dreamy encaustics depict dualities
like "night/day and dark/light; finite/
infinite and one/zero; quiet/loud and
soft/hard; organic/manmade."

The Alice

6007 12th Ave S, thealicegallery.com. Sat

★ Everyone's $50 (Through Dec
30): This exemplarily democratic
exhibition has gathered works by
anyone who wished to participate
in a "wunderkammer-style" art
show where everything costs $50.
Each contributed a single piece and
will receive half of the proceeds,
so your purchase of homegrown
amateur and professional art will
benefit both the gallery and a local
creator.

ArtXchange

512 1st Ave S, 206-839-0377,
artxchange.org, Tues-Sat

Color and Light: Marcio Diaz and
Elaine Hanowell (Through Jan 27):
Marco Diaz's Bubblism paintings
often depict landscapes, but in this
show, he'll focus more on abstrac¬
tion and color. See those works
alongside colorful lighted sculptures
by Elaine Hanowell.

Spiky, Smooth or Soft (Dec
7-Jan 20): ArtXChange will display
wearable art by Laura Castellanos,
encaustic containers by Native artist
Tracey Mae Chambers, and other
useful pieces.

★ Humaira Abid: My Shame (Feb
1-March 31): Humaira Abid's emo¬
tionally affecting, highly detailed
sculpture, often carved in wood,
evokes difficult, tragic, and uncom¬
fortable themes. For her new show,
Abid dramatizes feminine shame,

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AXIS Pioneer Square

308 First Ave S, 206-681-9316,
axispioneersquare.com, Mon-Fri by
appointment

Revelation Road Trip (Through
Jan 4): Abby Fields, Burgandy
Viscosi, Erin Fox, Gordon Wood,

Mari Shibuya, Moksha Marquardt,
Mykhailo Ponomarenko, Sienna
Dawn, and Taylor Seamount have
all created art on the theme of com¬
ing home to the Pacific Northwest
after traveling.

Bridge Productions

6007 12th Ave S, bridge.productions

Julie Alpert and Andy Arkley:
Desert Daze (Dec 9-30): This instal¬
lation mixes sculpture, pop imagery,
colorful graphics, and pattern,
crafted in the artists' Roswell, New
Mexico studios.

Center on Contemporary Art
(CoCA)

114 Third Ave S, 206-728-1980,
cocaseattle.org

★ Cathy McClure: Dispossessed

(Through Jan 13): Betty Bowen
Award-winning Cathy McClure
has created cute/disturbing decon¬
structed toys to interrogate our
visions of the future, our current
reality, mass production, and
inequality.

Central Library

1000 Fourth Ave, 206-386-4636, spl.org

Baseball Culture in Cuba: Photo¬
graphs by Ira Block (Through Dec
31): In photojournalist Ira Block's
new exhibition, he aims to capture
how baseball influences every¬
day life in Cuba through video
interviews with players from the
Mariners.

Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts

7605 SE 27th St #105, Mercer Island,
206-232-4456, ethnoarts.com

Silver Treasures (Through Dec 30):
Clarke & Clarke will display "adorn¬
ments, collections of boxes, trinkets,
and functional art."

A Rare Glimpse Into Russian Life:
From Tsar to USSR (Through Dec
11): See a small collection of cabinet
and period photographs, rare books,
silver cigarette cases, badges, and an
Imperial officer's frock coat from the
period of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II.

Cloud Gallery

901 E Pike, 206-720-2054,
cloudgalleryseattle. wordpress. com,
daily

Eric E. Kolbe: Colorspace (Dec
14-Feb 6): These acrylic, abstract
works focus on color to provoke
emotional reactions and reminis¬
cences in the viewer.

Greg Rachko: Voices in Other
Rooms (Feb 8-March 6): Greg
Rachko's interior portraits and fig¬
ures in rooms boast lively colors and
patterns.

Jason Bourguignon: Oil Paintings

(March 8-April 10): See abstract oils
by Jason Bourguignon.

Cole Gallery

107 5th Ave S, Edmonds, 425-697-2787,
colegallery.net, daily

Kristen Reitz Green: Colossal
Delicacies (Through Dec 19):
Kristen Reitz Green paints delicious
treats in painstaking detail.

Jennifer Diehl and Robin Weiss:
Painting Edmonds, Seattle,
and Beyond (Through Dec 31):
Jennifer Diehl and Robin Weiss pay
artistic tribute to this little piece of
the Northwest, both natural and
manmade.

Columbia City Gallery

4864 Rainier Ave S, 206-760-9843,
columbiacitygallery. com, Wed-Sun

Magic Show (Through Dec 7):

Magic Show is a holiday-focused
group exhibit that features paint¬
ings, jewelry, pottery, and more by
gallery members Kathryn Booze,

Bill Booze, Karen Dedrickson, Kate
Harkins, Carol Hershman, Elionor
Maroney, and Olivia Zapata.

Fifth Annual Chop Challenge &
Group Show (Through Jan 7): In the
Guest Gallery, see the 5th Annual
Chop Challenge, an exhibit and fun¬
draiser featuring Eileen Fisher gar¬
ments "up-cycled" into functional
items or works of art. In the Main
Gallery, check out a group show
with works by artists Kate Harkins,
Karen Dedrickson, Carol Hershman,
Bill Booze, Kathryn Booze, Elinor
Maroney, and Olivia Zapata.

CORE

117 Prefontaine Place S, 206-467-4444,
coregallery.org, Wed-Sat

CORE Holiday Show (Dec 7-30):

See pieces for the holidays by the 20
CORE Gallery artists.

★ Black Imagination: The States
of Matter (Jan 4-27): For the
month of January, Core Gallery will
be transformed by a black-womxn-
led cadre of writers, multimedia
artists, activists, and community
builders into an immersive, publicly
accessible dialogue on wellness and
creativity using technology and
storytelling. "Reparations" website
founder Natasha Marin delves into
what it means to create a space
beyond the white gaze, while poet
Imani Sims examines the shadow
of blackness. Writer and educator
Amber Flame gathers origin stories
from children and incarcerated peo¬
ple, while LA-based performance
artist Rachael Ferguson harnesses
the alchemy of bottling "Black Joy."
Don't miss the performances dur¬
ing the First Thursday opening on
January 4. ep

Davidson Galleries

313 Occidental Ave S, 206-624-1324,
davidsongalleries.com, Tues-Sat

★ International Wood
Engraving Invitational (Dec 7-30):
See wood engraving from around
the world by, among others, con¬
temporary Japanese artist Atsushi
Matsuoka, 20th-century German
American artist Fritz Eichenberg,
and English American modern artist
Clare Leighton.

International Mezzotint
Invitational (Jan 4-27): See mez¬
zotints ((a type of intaglio print
invented in the 17th century) by
Douglas Bosley, Karinna Gomez,

Julie Niskanen, Judith Rothchild,
and Kouki Tsuritani's that reveal the
versatility of the medium, ranging
from detailed botanical depictions to
fantastic "quantum" landscapes.

Kurt Seligmann: "Protuberances
Cardiaques" Suite (Jan 4-27): See
treasures from Swiss American surre¬
alist/fantasist artist Kurt Seligmann.

Michael Kempson: Child's Play/
Ben Beres: They're Shootin'
to Kill (Feb 2-24): Printer/painter
Michael Kempson will show work
alongside Ben Beres, known for
exploring the word in art.

★ Sister Corita Kent (Feb 2-24):
Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sister
Mary Corita Kent entered a con¬
vent at age 18. In 1947, during
graduate school at the University
of Southern California, she fell in
love with screenprinting. Influenced
by Andy Warhol, the slogans of
the Civil Rights era, and her own
commitment to consider poverty,
racism, and injustice from a spiritual
perspective, Corita Kent created
one of the boldest, most distinctive
bodies of 20th-century poster art.
After heading up the art depart¬
ment at Immaculate Heart College
in Los Angeles for a number of
years (where she could often be
seen screenprinting in a full nun's
habit) she left the order and moved
to Boston, where her work took on
a more introspective style, ep

Joan Miro: Etchings &
Lithographs (March 2-31): Davidson
presents prints by the famed Catalan
surrealist.

★ Keisuke Yamamoto (March
2-31): Keisuke Yamamoto works
in paint, pencil, and especially
wooden sculpture, creating mystical
objects that resemble something
between religious icons and organ¬
isms. Since major earthquakes and
the economic recession in Japan,
Yamamato has returned to a sim¬

pler style, abandoning his penchant
for colossal pieces.

Facere Jewelry Art Gallery

1420 Fifth Ave, Suite 108, 206-624-6768,
facerejewelryart.com, daily

Holiday Show (Through Dec 21):
Browse nature-inspired, geometrical,
whimsical, and sculptural jewelry
by Kranitzky and Overstreet, Seth
Papac, Mi-Sook Hur, Dorothee Rosen,
Kat Cole, and others.

Right On! Rites, Rituals,
Remembrances (Feb 7-27): Right
On! Rites, Rituals, Remembrances
presents fetish objects and talismans
by more than 20 jewelry artists.

Janis Kerman (March 15-April
3): Jeweler Janis Kerman, based in
Quebec, makes carefully balanced,
spare pieces that play with precious
stones and contrast, color, and nega¬
tive space.

Fantagraphics Bookstore and
Gallery

1201 S Vale St, 206-557-4910,
fantagraphics.com, daily

'k Jaime Hernandez and Charles
Burns (Dec 9-Jan 10): If you have
the slightest interest in the art
of graphic novels, this is a big
deal. Charles Burns, author of the
haunting body horror stories Black
Hole and Last Look, is famed for
his stark chiaroscuro style. Jaime
Hernandez is the co-creator of Love
and Rockets, which he wrote and
illustrated with his brothers Gilbert
and Mario. Hernandez's stories
focused on the dramas playing out
among a group of chicano punk
friends in Los Angeles. This exhibi¬
tion will show original prints by the
two artists.

NOW Contemporary Comix
Art Exhibition (Jan 13-Feb 7):
Fantagraphics will boast original
work by some significant comics art¬
ists, new and well-established alike,
including Eleanor Davis, Gabrielle
Bell, Sammy Harkham, Dash Shaw,
Malachi Ward, and Rebecca Morgan.

Form/Space Atelier

98 Clay Street, 206-349-2509,
formspaceatelier.com

Matt Kandegas: 20-year
Retrospective (Through Dec 31):
Swedish artist Matt Kandegas's sig¬
nature paintings feature minimalist,
oversized paperclips—see a 20-year
retrospective of his work.

Foster/White Gallery

220 Third Ave S Ste 100, 206-622-2833,
fosterwhite.com, Tues-Sat

Casey McGlynn: Look Through
My Things, Figure Me Out (Dec
7-23): Casey McGlynn's childlike, per¬
spective-less paintings ever-so-slightly
resemble Chagall in their flattened,
colorful, endearing depictions of peo¬
ple, animals, vehicles, and houses.

Frederick Holmes and
Company

309 Occidental Ave S, 206-682-0166,
frederickholmesandcompany. com,
Tues-Sun

★ Walter Quirt: A Science of Life

(Through Dec 31): You can find the
works of this American modernist in
the Whitney, the MoMA, the deYoung
Museum, and many other presti¬
gious institutions—but many of the
particular drawings and paintings
now at Frederick Holmes haven't
been seen in half a century.

Gallery I/I

2856 NW Market St, 1-855-425-1631,
gallery1of1.com

Robert Calaf iore and Joseph
Minek: Color Darkroom
Innovators (Through Dec 16): These
two photographers, Hartford's
Robert Calafiore and Cleveland's
Joseph Minek, still work in the dark¬
room, and this exhibition reveals
their mastery of abstracts, nontradi-
tional chromogenic processing, and
sculpture with prints.

Gallery 110

110 Third Ave S, 206-624-9336,
gallery110.com, Wed-Sat

All the Best: Member Group
Exhibition (Dec 8-30): See the cream

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Gala Bent

Why you should see it:

Her intricate sketches combined
with geometric shapes are stunning.

When/Where: December 8-
January 20 at G. Gibson Gallery.

of the Gallery 110 crop with works
in various media by Maylee Noah,
Leonardo Lanzolla, David Haughton,
Mimi Cernyar Fox, and others.

Kevin Marshall and Saundra
Fleming: pictureswordspictures

(Jan 4-27): These two artists will
explore "Words Set Free."

Lauren Greathouse: The Elwha:

A River Set Free (Jan 4-27): These
black-and-white photographs reveal
the revitalization of the Elwha River
and environs after the destruction of
the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams.

Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition

(Feb 1-24): A guest curator will
choose pieces from a national art call
for the eighth annual juried exhibi¬
tion at Gallery 110.

David Haughton and Michael
Abraham (March 1-31): The gal¬
lery will display work by David A.
Haughton, who paints chilly night-,
snow-, and water-scapes, and
Michael Abraham, a painter and
sculptor of unnerving surreal and
allegorical fantasies.

G. Gibson Gallery

104 W Roy St, 206-587-4033,
ggibsongallery.com, Wed-Sat

'k Gala Bent and Justin Gibbens

(Dec 8-Jan 20): Gala Bent is known
for her intricate sketches inter¬
twined with geometric abstractions.
Justin Gibbens, a founding member
of the lamented former art gallery
PUNCH, favors animal and paleon¬
tological subjects.

Weldon Butler and Amanda
Knowles (Jan 26-March 3): The
gallery welcomes Amanda Knowles,
who focuses on architectural struc¬
ture, ropelike forms, and Delaunay-
like patterns, alongside veteran
abstract artist Weldon Butler, who
paints simple geometric images that
look like impossible monuments.

Ghost Gallery

504 E Denny Way, 206-832-6063,
ghostgalieryshop.com, Wed-Sun

'k Holiday Mini Art Exhibit

(Through Jan 7): Sadly, the Ghost
Gallery is losing its lease—although
we hope to see it pop up elsewhere.
Pay them a visit and buy some mini¬
art ("in the 10"x10"x10" range") for
$300 or less.

Ghost Gallery Retrospective

(Jan 11-28): The Ghost Gallery
celebrates seven years in Capitol
Hill—with their tenure now drawing
to a close—with works by Yoona

Lee, Andie DeRoux, Erin
Kendig, Joseph Gray, Krisna
Schumann, Levi Hastings,
Stasia Burrington, and others.

Glassbox Gallery

831 Seattle Blvd S,
glassboxgallery. com,

Wed-Sat

★ Tannaz Farsi: Field not Frame

(Through Dec 9): Farsi's solo show
features seven sculptures. The first
two works you encounter are of a
personal-to-the-artist nature. One
is a memory box of sorts, featur¬
ing the artist's mother's hand-knit
sweater and a digital print of a
parrot. In the same room is a stack
of greeting cards indiscriminately
floating on the wall. There are
no explanations or didactics near
the artworks. In the other room
is one of Farsi's most recurring
pieces-Untitled [Without Control].

It is a large round silver medallion,
standing alone in the middle of the
room, with "YOUAREINVISIBLE"
carved through it. It said to me:

"No one actually sees you. I am
sorry to inform you." Upstairs there
are two works. The first is composed
of three individually titled sculp¬
tures which form one installation.

10 security lights blare directly at
two steel plates carved with words
addressing social and digital bound¬
aries (colonist, pilgrim, defector, to
name a few). Around the corner is
the last piece, "Script." Do not miss

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Greg Kucera Gallery

212 Third Ave S, 206-624-0770,
gregkucera.com, Tues-Sat

★ David Byrd and Michael Dailey

(Through Dec 23): This exhibit offers
beautiful works by two very differ¬
ent artists: Michael Dailey's glowing
abstractions, which play with figure/
ground perception using washes of
color, and David Byrd's painstakingly
created portraits and surrealist inte¬
riors and scenes, inspired by his 25
years working in a VA hospital.

Joseph Goldberg: Paintings

(Jan 4-Feb 17): Seattle-born Joseph
Goldberg's elegant, spare encaustic
paintings and sculptures recall mor¬
sels of sky, clusters of shadows or
stones, and swaths of sunshine.

Norman Lundin: Figure Painting

(Jan 4-Feb 17): Norman Lundin's
still-life paintings study not just
objects but mini-environments,
bare interiors in dim morning light
or wintry domestic spaces. This
show will reveal his approach to
the human figure.

★ Gregory Blackstock (Feb
22-March 31): See encyclopedically
drawn renderings of sets of objects
by Blackstock, a non-neurotypical
artist and obsessive list-maker and

cataloguer of the everyday, from
thesaurus pages to squash species or
Montana architecture.

★ Joey Veltkamp: Recent Work

(Feb 22-March 31): After 20 years
in Seattle, beloved Northwest artist
Joey Veltkamp has recently relo¬
cated to the city of Bremerton on
the Kitsap Peninsula, an hour west
by ferry. For his first solo show at
Greg Kucera, Veltkamp uses quilt¬
ing techniques to stitch together
the disparate aspirations, economic
conditions, and histories of these
neighboring cities. The centerpiece
is an enormous quilt made of denim
from Bremerton thrift stores that
says "BLUE SKIES FOREVER." The
title is a Lana Del Rey lyric that
alludes to buoyant optimism in
the face of adversity, but it could
also reference his view of the
region from the Salish Sea, where
Veltkamp has already spotted seals
and orcas along his commute, ep

Hall I Spassov Bellevue

800 Bellevue Way NE, Ste 150, Bellevue,
425-453-3244, hallspassov.com, Tues-Sat

Mars and Pony and Benjamin
Britton (Through Dec 31): See mixed
media works by artist duo Mars and
Pony alongside Benjamin Britton's
abstract collage-style paintings with
subtle glimmers of representation
and realism.

Harris Harvey Gallery

1915 First Avenue, 206-443-3315,
harrisharveygallery.com, Tues-Sat

Richard Morhous: Duets (Dec
7-30): Richard Morhous, known for
his acrylics, will show landscapes and
urban scenes.

Hoedemeker Pfeiffer Gallery

6109 13th Avenue S,
hoedemakerpfeiffer. com

Pop Shop (Through Dec 30): Shop
ceramics, rugs, paintings, draw¬
ings, and other artist creations all
December.

★ Kat Larson (Through Dec 31):

In Kat Larson's latest photo/video
series, she continues the story of
an alien from another planet who
crash lands on Earth. As the visitor
explores the planet, they find their
strength weakened by a lack of love
and compassion, and begin to slowly
fade away.

INCA

2 West Roy St incainstitute.org, Wed-Sat

★ Hypomnemata (Through Dec 9):
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weird things will be for the aliens
or future civilizations tasked with
unearthing artifacts from the early
21st century? When the internet is
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show that examines this question by
means of various modes of inquiry.
Featured artists Rindon Johnson, Ed
Steck, Robert Joseph Sandler, Holly
Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin,
Somnath Bhatt, and Maya Martinez
are poets, designers, dancers, and
visual artists working at the intersec¬
tion of digital culture and embodied
experience. The results are, in the
words of curator Barrett White,
"remnants of a speculative archaeol¬
ogy, a future ruin." ep

Interstitial

6007 12th Ave S,
interstitialtheatre.com. Sat

★ Wong Ping: Who's the Daddy

(Through Dec 23): Hong Kong-based
artist Wong Ping is known for his
cutesy, creepy, trippy animations (Jen
Graves especially liked "the story of
the impotent man who waits in the
bedroom closet while his wife does
sex work"). Don't miss his brightly-
colored and metaphor-driven stories.

★ Brandon Aleson, Reilly
Donovan, Benjamin Van Citters

(Jan 6-Feb 24): Interact with Aleson,
Donovan, and Van Citters's installa¬
tions exploring the body and "digi¬
tally mediated space."

Rick Silva (March 10-April 28): Rick
Silva, the recipient of Rhizome and
Whitney Museum of American Art
grants, presents new media depicting
and imagining animals and nature
and their place in the present day.

Jack Straw Cultural Center

4261 Roosevelt WayNE, jackstraw.org,
Mon-Fri

Garrett Fisher and Tori Ellison:
Mikawa (Through Dec 8): This sound
and sculpture installation is inspired
by the epic Japanese poem (or series
of poems) Tales of Ise, and will
explore "longing, beauty, and the
ephemeral."

Ellen Sollod and Dan Hawkins:
The Great Basin: Two Views

(Through Feb 28): The Great Basin is
a huge watershed that covers large
areas of five western states. This exhi¬
bition grapples with climate change
and other transformations of the
natural area.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Art Building, UW Campus, 206-685-1805,
art.washington.edu, Tues-Sat

★ Material Performance: Part II

(Through Dec 9): Can painting and
sculpture be considered time-based
art? Material Performance is a two-
part exhibition that answers this
question in the form of objects that
change throughout the run of the
show. The first part showcased the
work of current UW MFA students;
the second installment features a
stellar roster of artists including
Francesca Lohmann, whose 80 pound
blocks of lemon taffy gradually flat¬
ten out under their own weight, and
Nola Avienne, whose magnetic sculp¬
tures continually reshape themselves.
Other artists in this show about
matter and the forces that shape it
include Leon Finley, Jason Hirata, and
Jono Vaughan, ep

James Harris Gallery

604 Second Ave, 206-903-6220,
jamesharrisgallery.com, Wed-Sat

Holiday Pop-Up (Dec 7-20):
Celebrate the holiday season at this
gallery show/pop-up featuring vari¬
ous media.

:k Claire Cowie and Brad
Winchester (Jan 4-Feb 10): Claire
Cowie works in watercolor, collage,
and sculpture to produce imaginary
worlds that resonate with the emo¬
tional and perceptual experience of
intimacy, imagination, and physical
space. Sometimes these spaces are
densely populated with animals,
figures, and architectural elements;
other times they are haunted by an
absence so profound that you can't
quite put your finger on what's miss¬
ing. Brad Winchester is a painter
whose recent work has bypassed
painting altogether to deconstruct
the physicality of the canvas, using
unwoven linen to create sculptural
objects with or without stretcher
bars. This is his first exhibition at
James Harris, ep

Evan Nesbit (Feb 15-March 24):

Evan Nesbit paints and prints vivid
colors, often in monochrome, on
vinyl, burlap, and other somewhat
unusual media.

Krab Jab Studio

5628 Airport Way S Ste 150, 206-707-
9311, krabjabstudio.com

Masters and Neophytes (Through
Jan 7): This show promises a dose of
surrealism, fantasy, and horror, and
will feature works by Brom, Kyle
Abernethy, and Brigid Marlin.

Linda Hodges Gallery

316 First Ave S, 206-624-3034,
lindahodgesgallery.com, Tues-Sat

Joe Max Emminger (Dec 7-30): Joe
Max Emminger's humans, animals,
and hybrids, painted on canvas or
wood panel, cavort and chat against
colorful monochromatic backgrounds
or naive landscapes.

Karen Yurkovich (Jan 4-27):
Canadian painter Karen Yurkovich
paints delicate-looking plants and
ghostly, woodsy scenes on textiles,
recalling Japanese nature art,
European folk art, and/or impression¬
ism at various times.

Daphne Minkoff/Gabe Fernandez

(Feb 1-24): Daphne Minkoff's collage
juxtapositions using urban photog¬
raphy will be shown alongside Gabe
Fernandez's realistic scenes of "mid-
century-modern environments."

M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery

Seattle Central College, 1701

Broadway, 206-934-4379,

sea ttlecentral. edu/artgallery, Mon-Thurs

★ Youth in Focus (Through Dec 14):
For the past 24 years, low-income
city youth have expressed themselves
and captured glimpses of their daily
lives thanks to Youth In Focus's arts
program, which pairs the young pho¬
tographers with adult mentors.

:k Carina del Rosario: Passports
Series (Jan 2-Feb 1): See Carina del
Rosario's collaborative "passports,"
for which she asked participants
to create identity papers by "using
their own words to describe the
most important parts of them¬
selves." In this commentary on self-
determination, individuals escape
rote categorization.

METHOD

106 Third Ave S, 206-713-7819,
methodgallery.com, Fri-Sat

★ Julia Freeman: The Will to
Synchronize (Through Jan 6): Once
again, Julia Freeman interrogates
systemic influences over everyday
interactions. The Will to Synchronize
unfolds in three acts in an explora¬
tion of online relationships and the
forces controlling them, expressed in
"3D printed objects of vocal record¬
ings, choreographed performance,
and installation."

Teresa Getty and Jeremy
Wineberg: here (Jan 12-Feb 24):
here is based on a book of draw¬
ings that was passed, then mailed,
between the two artists. Continuing
their collaboration, Getty and
Wineberg will create a three-
dimensional version of their work on
the page.

Therese Buchmiller: COMPOSED

(March 2-April 14): COMPOSED com¬
bines fake leaves, textbook diagrams,
picture book excerpts, and other
elements to explore language, icons,
and representation.

Oxbow

6118 12th Ave S, 206-234-8741,
facebook.com/oxbowseattle/timeline

★ Barbara Robertson:
Architectonic (Through Jan
6): Seattle-based artist Barbara
Robertson's site-specific installation is
composed of three projected anima¬
tions that use the gallery space as a
central part of its image. The artist
will continue to add new elements to
the installation until it closes.

Nii Modo

4455 Stone Way N, 206-955-7999,
facebook.com/pg/niimodo/

★ Hobby Rockers (Robin Edwards
& Bree McKenna) (Dec 15-Jan 13):
Local musicians Robin Edwards and
Bree McKenna of Lisa Prank, Tacocat,

Malayka and Tom Gormally:
“Present/Tense”

School of Art, University of
Washington

4000 15th Ave NE, 206-543-0970

'k Telling Our Stories: Art and
Homelessness (Through Dec 15):
Don't miss this exhibit that high¬
lights the perspectives of resident
artists living at the Downtown
Emergency Service Center building.
The pieces—created by a group of
the center's residents called the LEAP
Artist Collective—speak to themes of
"hope, healing, reconnection, and
finding home."

Seattle Presents Gallery

Seattle Municipal Tower, 700 Fifth
Avenue, seattle.gov/arts/experience/
galleries, Mon-Fri

Sloan Dawson and Sara Zewde

(Through Dec 14): This exhibit will
offer investigations into urbanism,
architecture, and design created by
planner, urban designer, and artist
Sloan Dawson with Sara Zewde, who
has a background in landscape archi¬
tecture and city planning.

Shift

312 S Washington St,
shiftgalleryseattle.org, Fri-Sat

Robin Walker: Anti Self-Help

(Through Dec 23): Robin Walker
blends traditional and digital media
to reflect on "Western society's strive
for perfection."

Ken Barnes: New Work (Dec 8-23):
Former rock climber and sculptor Ken
Barnes shapes elegant, simple objects
in beautiful stone.

Anna Macrae: Making Marks

(Jan 4-27): Increasingly recognized
Northwest artist Anna Macrae builds
landscapes through frenetic, color¬
ful lines, "awkward marks," and
blotches of color.

Joseph Pentheroudakis: Finger
Painting: New Digital Drawings

(Jan 5-27): Pentheroudakis, who's
influenced by Vija Celmins, Eva Hesse,
and the abstract expressionists, pres¬
ents playful new digital works.

Stephanie Hargrave: Obeisance
/ Derision (Feb 2-24): Obeisance /
Derision features "an installation
homage to nature" next to politically
focused encaustic painting and wall
sculpture in a paean to the feminine
and a condemnation of powerful
people's sexism.

Eric Chamberlain: Abstracts

(March 2-23): Eric Chamberlain is
often interested in domestic still life
and everyday objects. This time, he'll
be showing recent abstract paintings,
drawings, and prints.

Why you should see it: A

husband-and-wife team examines our
current cultural moment.

When/Where: Through December
21 at Spaceworks Gallery.

Kris Ekstrand Molesworth,
Stephen MacFarlane, and Fumi
Matsumoto (Feb 2-24): At this
group show focusing on birds,
see monotype prints by Stephen
MacFarlane, animal block prints on
teabag papers by Fumi Matsumoto,
and drawings and paintings of bird
nests by Kris Ekstrand Molesworth.

SAM Gallery

Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave,
206-343-1101, seattleartmuseum.org,
Mon-Sun

Color Excursion (Dec 6-Jan 7): This
exhibition with works by Carolyn
Cole, Stephen Rock, Leslie Stoner, Liz
Tran, and Sheryl Westergreen will
offer joyful color and verve.

New Art, New Artists (Jan 10-Feb
5): SAM Gallery will showcase ris¬
ing stars of the Northwest, includ¬
ing Seattle, Skagit, and Portland:
Tamara English, Patty Haller, and
Anna Macrae.

★ Harold Hollingsworth at TASTE

(Through Feb 4): Hollingsworth's
work is reminiscent of the Seattle
painter Ken Kelly, but the former's
idiosyncratic vocabulary of images
plays on the canvas in a simpler, more
random way.

Outside Influences (Feb 7-April 8):
SAM Gallery investigates influence
from the real world on art through
the works of Dan Hawkins, Ryan
Molenkamp, Kate Protage, and
Chris Sheridan.

Schack Art Center

2921 Hoyt Ave, Everett, 425-259-5050,
schack.org

Holiday Show 2017 (Through Dec
31): Celebrate the holidays with glass
and ceramic works by regional artists
alongside pieces by members of the
Northwest Watercolor Society.

★ Looking Back: Honoring 25
Years of Artist of the Year (Jan
11-Feb 24): The Schack Art Center
has honored an "Artist of the Year"
for the past two and a half decades.
This retrospective will feature such
laureates as glass artist Robert
Mitchell, painter Chuck Close, and
basket-maker Dona Anderson.

Regional Scholastic Art Awards

(Feb 12-March 4): See impres¬
sive work by youngsters from
Snohomish County.

Juried Art Show (March 8-April 14):
This show will feature selected works
by Northwest artists in various media.

Ninalee Irani, David Eisenhour, Kris
Ekstrand Molesworth, Douglas Girard,
Rod Weagant, and Jeff Weekley.

Patricia Rovzar Gallery

1111 1st Ave, 206-223-0273,
rovzargallery.com, daily

25th Annual Group Exhibition

(Through Dec 31): This gallery will cel¬
ebrate 25 years of existence in a group
show employing encaustics, oil, acrylic,
fiber, ceramic, glass, and more.

Photographic Center
Northwest

900 12th Ave, 206-720-7222, pcnw.org,
Mon-Thurs,Sat-Sun

Notions of Home (Through Dec 10):
This series of photographs explores
the word "home" and all its poten¬
tial meanings. They add, "As many in
our city face a scarcity of affordable
living, or a change in paperwork and
policies affecting their ability to call a
place home, we look to photography
to do what it does best: engage,
reveal, provoke, and elucidate vari¬
ous viewpoints on this topic."

PCNW Presents: Ernie Flowers
and Marcia Glover (Through
Dec 17): Two upcoming artists,

Ernie Flowers and Marcia Glover,
exhibit a photographic series called
Reflections of Home in PCNW's spon¬
sorship program.

★ Jun Ahn: On the Verge (Jan
8-March 24): See South Korean pho¬
tographer Jun Ahn's hair-raising self-
portraits atop high buildings.

Prographica / KDR

313 Occidental Ave S, 206-999-0849,
prographicadrawings.com, Tues-Sat

★ Fred Birchman and Kathy
Gore Fuss (Through Dec 22): See
iconographic, architectural draw¬
ings by Seattle mixed media artist
Fred Birchman and forest-dedicated
paintings by Olympia's Kathy Gore
Fuss, which express her relationship
with natural areas that she visits
throughout the year.

★ Zhi Lin (Jan 4-27): Zhi Lin contin¬
ues to explore the same themes of
Chinese immigration as in In Search
of the Lost History of Chinese
Migrants and the Transcontinental
Railroads at the Tacoma Art
Museum.

Sandow Birk (Feb 1-24):
Politically minded Los
Angeles artist Sandow Birk
(known for such exhibi¬
tions as American Qur'an
and Trumpagruel) harks
back to the allegorical
traditions of European painting and
printing.

Push/Pull

5484 Shilshole Ave NW, 206-789-1710,
facebook.com/pushpullseattle, daily

★ Fruiting Bodies (Through Dec
19): Explore "the mysteries and
secrets of the fungal world" at this
group show featuring artist Lara
Kaminoff.

Ballard: 2117 (Dec 19-Jan 17):
Push/Pull artists will depict their
rapidly changing neighborhood as
they imagine it in 100 years.

Existential Horror (Jan 18-Feb 14):
Jon-Michael Frank, Brandon Vosika,
Helen America, and Elaine Lin will
anticipate the awful events of the
year to come in their various media.

MishMash (Feb 15-March 14): One
artist will create a background and
the other will paint a foreground in
this collaborative show.

Redefinition

911 Pine St, stgpresents.org/
redefinition

★ Joe (wahalatsu?) Seymour Jr.

(Through Feb): Joseph (wahalatsu?)
Seymour Jr. (Squaxin Island/Pueblo
of Acoma) is a visual artist who
works in glass, photography, Salish
wool weaving, printmaking, wood,
and rawhide drums. His work in
various mediums will be on view
through February at the final exhibi¬
tion curated by 2016 Genius Award
winner Tracy Rector at Redefinition,
a Native-centered art gallery located
in the lobby of the Paramount
Theatre. "The pervasive colonizer
mentality of writing and rewriting
history, to serve the needs of those
in power, is a symptom of 'dis-ease'
that impacts our global body,"
writes Rector in her curator state¬
ment. "As an act of healing, now is
the time to decolonize false narra¬
tives, spaces, and our minds." ep

Roby King Gallery

176 Winslow Way E, Bainbridge Island,
206-842-2063, robykinggallery.com

Reflections (Through Dec 30):
More than 25 artists have contrib¬
uted to this show that offers takes
on light's bounce off of a surface or
the act of contemplation.

New Artists Gala Exhibition (Jan
5-27): Roby King will welcome new¬
comers to its gallery walls, including

Childbirth, and Who Is She? fame are
teaming up again but this time for
an art show, with years of their paint¬
ings and drawings displayed in new
community art space Nii Modo.

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soilart.org, Thurs-Sun

★ Tech Support (Dec 7-30): As
the tech industry alters Seattle's
landscape in ways large and small,
SOIL responds with an installation
of art objects based on technology,
formatted like a store. In addition
to delving into the art market and
whether it should appeal to rich
newcomers, the exhibit—showing
works by Ellen Jing Xu, Francisco
Guerrero, and many others—will try
to bridge the gap between the art
and tech communities.

Trust Fall (Jan 4-27): SOIL welcomes
Ditch Projects, an Oregon-based artist
studio, for some experimentation in a
collaborative exhibition.

Kiki Maclnnes: Intertidal: Still
Life from the Beach (Feb 1-24):

Kiki Maclnnes's visual art depicts the
"unexpected mix of man and nature"
at the tide's edge.

La Voix des Airs (Feb 1-24): This
installation uses modular pipes to
create audio feedback loops. It's
the work of the Seattle collective
Plancklength (Blake DeGraw, Jeff
Anderson, and Chloe Wicks), who
like to play with the physical proper¬
ties of sound.

★ In the Shadow of Olympus

(March 1-31): The continent-
spanning Japanese collective Art
Beasties, which collaborates over
Skype, has brought together work
addressing the upcoming Tokyo
Olympics. Some of the participat¬
ing artists include locals Junko
Yamamoto and Paul Komada.

Spaceworks Gallery

950 Pacific Ave #300, Tacoma, 253-682-
1735, spaceworkstacoma.com/gallery

★ Malayka and Tom Gormally:
Present / Tense (Through Dec 21):
Born in the Bay Area to immigrant
and Jewish parents and raised during
the Civil Rights era, Malayka Gormally
makes colorful, figurative oil paint¬
ings that capture the strangely
human side of tense confrontations
between activists and members of
hate groups. During the Vietnam
war, her husband Tom was a Navy
mechanic who protested the war he
had to serve in. Now he works with
wood, found objects, and LED light¬
ing to create objects that are at once
aspirational and precarious; uncertain
yet surprisingly resilient. Their two-
person show is an examination of our
current cultural moment by two art¬
ists who have already been through
an era of intense political upheaval
and lived to tell about it. ep

Stonington Gallery

125 S Jackson St, 866-405-4485,
stoningtongallery.com, daily

Joan Tenenbaum (Dec 7-31): Joan
Tenenbaum's silver and gold jewelry,

adorned with precious stones, draws
on images of the ecology, plants, and
animals of the PNW and Alaska.

The Sky World: Winter
Invitational Exhibit (Dec 7-Jan 1):
The Sky World finishes a cycle of art
based on the Northwest environ¬
ment, begun in Resurgence: Rivers
and continued through Into the
Woods: Forests. See paintings, pot¬
tery, sculpture, and more based on
the atmosphere, the planets, the
birds, or the celestial sphere.

Drew Michael: Shadows (Feb
1-25): Up-and-coming Yup'ik/lnupiaq
artist Drew Michael explores themes
of queer identity, Christianity, and
Native Alaskan culture in his elegant
masks, icons, and other sculptures
using wood and glass.

studio e

609 S Brandon St, 206-762-3322,
studioegallery.org, Fri-Sat

Brian A. Beck: rot (Through Jan 13):
See new sculptures/assemblages by
studio e artist Brian Beck, who often
works in wood to make both large-
and small-scale pieces.

★ Neddy Artist Awards
Exhibition (Jan 27-Feb 24): The
Neddy Awards, given by Cornish
College, recompense artists living
in the Puget Sound area. This year,
Tacoman Christopher Paul Jordan an
Korean/Indigenous artist Che Sehyun
took top prizes, while Barbara
Sternberger, Gillian Theobald, Tuan
Nguyen, Gretchen Bennett, Marita
Dingus, and Dakota Gearhart were
runners-up. See the works of these
distinguished locals.

Traver Gallery

110 Union St #200, 206-587-6501,
travergallery.com

Gregory Grenon: Torture and
Deliriums Like These (Through
Dec 23): Gregory Grenon paints his
unique works on the reverse side of
glass. This new series highlights the
artist's signature approach to narra¬
tive and color.

Mary Josephson: My Corner of
the World (Through Dec 23): This
exhibition of contemplative works
features embroidery, mosaics, and
paintings by multimedia artist Mary
Josephson.

UW Tower

4333 Brooklyn Ave NE

Stephen J. Walker: Storming the
Tower (Jan 5-March 31): Seattle
car builder and artist Stephen
J. Walker, who's done work for
National Lampoon, Flustler, and
Andy Warhol, will have a wealth of
work showcasing his versatility and
humor on display.

VALA Art Center

7525 166th Ave NE, Redmond,
valaeastside.org, Fri-Sun

impAct (Dec 8-Jan 14): impAct
artist collective's group exhibition
will address mental health, climate
change, domestic violence, police
conflict, and other important issues
of our time. On December 16, they'll
host a zine-making workshop.

Vashon Center for the Arts

19600 Vashon HwySW, Vashon, 206-463-
5131, vashoncenterforthearts. org

Masters in Miniature Exhibition

(Through Dec 21): Curators Devin
Grimm and Carol Schwennesen
continue the tradition of tiny art by
Vashon Island creators who work in
"wood, painting, mixed media, pho¬
tography, fiber, clay and more."

Veronica

2915 Rainer Ave S, Ste 12B, 425-268-
9847, businessnormal.com. Sat

★ Matt Browning (Jan 6-Feb 24):
Canadian artist and UW graduate
Matt Browning has exhibited at
the Whitney Biennial exhibition. He
explores "time, latency, and the selec¬
tive and hierarchical valuations of
human activity." Specifically, his past
exhibitions have dealt with masculin¬
ity, sports, and folk art.

Virago Gallery

4306 Southwest Alaska Street, 206-933-
2444, viragogallery.com

Our Daily Armor III - The Virago
in Contemporary Art and
Adornment (Through Dec 31): This
exhibit explores "the idea of women
and the armor they don to face the
world." Contributing artists include
Seattle illustrator Lauren Wong, LA
jeweler Melinda Lee Holm, Texas
painter/photographer Dawn Okoro,
and many others.

Washington State Convention
& Trade Center

800 Convention PI, 206-694-5000,
wsctc.com, daily

SAM Gallery at the Washington
Convention Center (Through Jan
15): Check out SAM Gallery artist
Troy Gua's latest large-scale artwork
in SAM's Convention Center space.
Gua's colorful prints deal with iden¬
tity, cultural critique, and contempo¬
rary humor.

Walking the Neighborhood:
Images from Favorite
Washington Places (Through March
31): See photographic visions by
Washington photographers, who've
taken pictures of their favorite posts
in the state (with an emphasis on
getting outside).

Winston Wachter Fine Art

203 Dexter Ave N, 206-652-5855,
winstonwachter.com, Mon-Sat,

10 am-5 pm

★ Amanda Manitach: Dirty

(Through Jan 10): From afar, Stranger
Genius Award nominee Amanda
Manitach's block prints look like
inner thoughts (or perturbing greet¬
ing cards) punched into colorful
stains. Get closer, and you'll real¬
ize that these stains are elaborate
patterns that may evoke Victorian
wallpaper. Manitach's artistic pro¬
cess is demonstratively physical:

She rubs patterns into splashes of
color, getting herself "dirty" in the
process. She says: "I see my work as
a task of both consciously and sub-
liminally sorting out the experience
of a female trying to make expres¬
sive marks—a task that has found
uncanny resonance for me with the
history of female hysteria."

★ Dirk Staschke: Perfection of
Happenstance (Through Jan 10):
Dirk Staschke's take on the Dutch
"Vanitas" paintings, reminders of

death painted by 16th- and 17th-cen¬
tury artists, uses ceramic and wood
sculpture to explore images of decay.

Peter Waite: Threshold (Jan
17-March 7): Peter Waite's paintings
explore place, memory, and time,
based on his experiences in Madrid,
Los Angeles, New York, Cincinnati,
Barcelona, and New England. His
method: realistic interiors and exte¬
riors crossed and blotched with fluo¬
rescence, emphasizing the unreality
of the landscapes.

Art Events

artEAST Art Center

95 Front St N, Issaquah

The Vault (Through Dec 31): The
Vault is selling original works and
giclee prints at the reasonable price
of $50, $100, or $150.

Building C Studios

14th Ave NW & NW Leary Way

Annual Building C Art Studios
Open House (Dec 9): It's the only day
of the year that you can visit Building
C's working artist studios. Pick up
some handmade clothing, jewelry,
art, and other treasures from the 13
creative types inside.

Colman Automotive Building

401 E Pine St

★ Arcade 35.3 Issue Launch Party

(Dec 14): Welcome the newest issue
of the luscious and colorful ARCADE
magazine, devoted to architecture,
urban planning, and design, with an
artsy party. Volume 35.3 is entitled
Rethinking Efficiency and edited by
Sawhorse Revolution. Pay $20 and
enjoy appetizers, drinks, music, and
a holiday auction.

Daybreak Star Center

5011 Bernie White bear Way, 206-285-
4425, unitedindians.org, Mon-Fri

Native Art Mart (Dec 9 & 17): Buy
authentic Native gifts—clothing,
drums, art prints, and more—from a
group of diverse local artists in beau¬
tiful Discovery Park.

Duwamish Longhouse

4717 West Marginal Way

Duwamish Arts & Crafts Market

(Dec 15-17): Pick up some holiday
gifts from the Duwamish Arts &

Crafts Market to find creations
from local Native American artists
representing a broad range of tribal
traditions.

Equinox Studios

6555 Fifth Ave S, equinoxstudios.org

★ Very Open House (Dec 9): See
the work of more than 125 artists
and artisans in four buildings as
mammoth Georgetown arts col¬
lective Equinox celebrates its 11th
birthday. The studios also promise
"guest artists, music, poetry, dance,
demos, food trucks, and a whole lot
more!" Stay after 10 p.m. for a night
of revelry and fire.

Imperial Lanes Building

2101 22nd Ave S

★ Punk Rock Flea Market (Dec
16-17): If shopping at the mall gives
you hives, but you still need to buy
something for someone, why not
buy a locally procured good while
drinking whiskey and listening to
locally selected music? Since 2006,
the biannual Punk Rock Flea Market
has provided an opportunity to

do just that, and today's iteration
promises to be bigger and better
than ever.

Magnuson Park Hangar 30

6310 NE 74th St

Renegade Craft Fair (Dec 16-17):
Renegade Craft Fair ("the largest
independent craft fair in the world")
will return to Magnuson Park, bring¬
ing along more than 200 makers sell¬
ing their wares, DIY workshops, food
and drinks, and other special events.

Nagomi Tea House

519 Sixth Ave S

Holiday Mahouto Market (Dec
9-10): Is someone in your life a sucker
for kawaii? You'll find enough cute¬
ness to satisfy their sweet tooth
this holiday season at the Mahouto
Market ("mahou to" means "magic
and" in Japanese). But if the more
savory side of manga and anime is

their deal, you'll find it here too. Plus:
adorable nerds in cosplay.

Northwest African American
Museum

2300 S Massachusetts St, 206-518-6000,
naamnw.org, Wed-Sun

Complex Exchange (Feb 28):
Exhibits from the Seattle Art Museum
and the Northwest African American
Museum will inspire community
members' conservations on "race,
power, politics, and representation."

Olympic Sculpture Park

2901 Western Ave, 206-654-3100,
seattleartmuseum.org, daily

★ SAM Lights (Dec 14): Fight dark¬
ness and gloom in SAM's garden of
luminarias and other installations
while you make your own art, drink
something hot, and listen to live
performances.

Winter in the Park: Art
Encounters (Jan 26 & Feb 23): Artists
will reveal their processes—and
involve onlookers—as they respond
to inspirations from the Olympic
Sculpture Park and the wider Seattle
region.

Pacific Galleries Auction House

241 5 Lander St, 206-441-9990,
pacgal.com

Fine Art 8r Antiques (Dec 9 & March
10): Pacific Galleries hosts an auction
of fine art and antiques; if you can't
make it in person, you can also par¬
ticipate in live bidding online.

Northwest Art & Modern Auction

(Jan 13): The auction house will offer
new and Northwestern art.

Asian Collection Auction (Feb
10): Bid on Asian art from Pacific
Galleries' collection.

Party Hat

312 S Washington St #G, facebook.com/
partyhatparty

★ GIFT HOLE (Dec 7 & 21): Want to
do your Black Friday or December
shopping for "artist made shit
that doesn't immediately trigger
existential dread or perpetuate the
systematic malaise of big box stores
and late stage capitalism"? Party Hat
has you covered.

Pigott Auditorium at Seattle
University

901 12th Ave

Saturday University (Dec 9-March
3): This winter, the Seattle Art
Museum's lecture series will include
talks with titles like "Hokusai's
Waterscapes," "Humanizing the
Inhuman: Photographing Death in
Duterte's Drug War,"and "Caste &
Sexual Politics in South India." The
talk on February 3, titled "DMZ
Crossings: Performing Emotional
Citizenship along the Korean
Border," will take place at SAM.

Pottery Northwest

226 First Ave N, 206-285-4421,
potterynorthwest.org, Tues-Fri

Pottery Northwest Holiday
Special (Through Dec 22): This local,
handmade art market will have sta¬
tionery, perfumes, leather, mustard,
jewelry, prints, coffee, and more for
sale as you prepare for the holidays.

Ren Fitness

1404 NW 49th St, 206-919-9079,
renfitness.net

★ HUG: A henry solo show and
book release party (Dec 9): You
know him as Henry, and he's the
muralist who has covered the walls
of your city in goofy walruses and
ostriches and fish and wizards. He's
putting on a solo show and launch¬
ing his new book, Mystic Plug Thug.

Seattle Art Museum

1300 First Ave, 206-625-8900,
seattleartmuseum.org, Wed-Mon

Asia Talks: Rohingya: The
World's Most Persecuted
Minority (Jan 24): Azeem Ibrahim,
senior fellow at the Centre for
Global Policy, will discuss the cur¬
rent plight of the Rohingya Muslim
community.

Asia Talks: Ahn Jun On the
Verge (Jan 31): Photographer
Ahn Jun takes hair-raising self-
portraits on top of skyscrapers.

She'll speak about her exhibit at the
Photographic Center Northwest.

Figuring History Community
Celebration (Feb 15): Celebrate
the opening of Figuring History
with music, performances, and art¬
making of your own.

Seattle Design Center

5701 Sixth Ave S, seattledesigncenter.
com, Mon-Fri

Art Under $100 (Dec 16): Find
affordable gifts from over 100
"crackerjack artists" offering paint¬
ings, glass, fabric art, ceramics,
jewelry, and more priced under one
Benjamin.

Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts

115 Prefontaine PI S

★ TK Lofts 13th Annual Open
House (Dec 7): If Santa and sleigh
bells are too ho-hum for your win¬
ter celebrations, try this art party
with butoh dance by members of
DAIPAN, Suzanne Morlock's sculp¬
ture exhibition, Rosemary Dai Ross's
holiday art, Lynn Schirmer's "Secret
Language" installation, DeGennaro/
Riutta family works, and open
studios, plus a masquerade where
you can make your own mask and a
potluck for all.

Tractor Tavern

5213 Ballard Ave NW, 206-789-3599,
tractortavern. com

Tractor Tavern's Handmade
Arcade (Dec 10 & 17): Enjoy live
music and drinks while you shop for
holiday gifts to bestow upon your¬
self and all your special friends.

Van Vorst Plaza

410 Terry Ave N

South Lake Union Winter Market

(Dec 8): Did you miss Urban Craft
Uprising early in December? There's
still hope: South Lake Union will host
a mini-reprise of the massive fair.

Vashon Center for the Arts

19600 Vashon HwySW, Vashon, 206-
463-5131, vashoncenterforthearts.org

Art & Humanities Lecture:
Sculpting Earth (Dec 17):
Landscape architect Kathryn
Gustafson, whose work can be
seen at such monuments as the
Smithsonian's National Museum
of African American History and
Culture in Washington, D.C. and the
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial
Fountain in London, will speak on
her work with earth as medium.

Vashon Island

Vashon Island Artist Studio Tour

(Through Dec 10): If you don't want
to shop in Seattle in December, try
out this art studio tour—featuring
more than 100 artists—on Vashon
Island. In addition to the studios,
the Vashon Center for the Arts will
be displaying the works of local
artists.

Westlake Park

401 Pine St, 206-684-4075, seattle.gov

Holiday Market at Westlake
Park (Through Dec 24): Urban Craft
Uprising and the Seattle Association
bring you this German Christmas
Market-inspired extravaganza every
year, with a different set of local
makers selling their wares each
week. Sip a warm drink and peruse
a plethora of handmade goods for
yourself or someone you like.

Art Walks

Art Up PhinneyWood

Second Fridays

Ballard Night Out

Third Thursdays

Belltown Art Walk

Second Fridays

Capitol Hill Art Walk

Second Thursdays

Fremont First Fridays

First Fridays

Georgetown Art Attack

Second Saturdays

Pioneer Square Art Walk

First Thursdays

Queen Anne Art Walk

Third Thursdays

U-District Art Walk

Third Fridays

West Seattle Art Walk

Second Thursdays

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THINGS TO DO

Why you should see it: What
are the odds the gods would put us
all in one spot?

When/Where: February 6-March
18 at Paramount Theatre.

PERFORMANCE

By Joule Zelman, Rich Smith, Christopher Frizzelle, and Dave Segal

Theater

I2th Avenue Arts

1620 12th Ave, 12avearts.org

Building the Wall (Through
Dec 23): With this production of
Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony
Award-winning playwright Robert
Schenkkan's Building the Wall, the
theater world has officially moved on
from indirect criticisms of the worst
president in the history of the US to
direct criticism of the worst president
in the history of the US. In the play,
which Schenkkan reportedly wrote
in a "white heat" after the 2016
election, ICE rounds up immigrants
following a terrorist attack in Times
Square. As everyone waits to hear
what will be done with the incarcer¬
ated, a history professor grills the
supervisor of the private prison, who
is in charge of administering the
horrifying punishment they expect
to come down the pike. Desdemona
Chiang, who's fresh off a pretty solid
production of The World of Extreme
Happiness at Seattle Public Theater,
directs, rs

Straight White Men (Jan 12-29):
In Washington Ensemble Theatre's
Northwest debut of this family
drama about three brothers mull¬
ing over their varying degrees of
success during a Christmas vacation,
Young Jean Lee holds whiteness and
straightness and maleness up to the
light for a proper examination that's
long overdue. Something tells me
that director Sara Porkalob, who has
written extensively on the issue, is
going to have a lot of fun with this
one. Though there's plenty of fodder
for her, Charles Isherwood over at the
New York Times says the play "goes
far beyond cheap satire, ultimately
becoming a compassionate and
stimulating exploration of one man's
existential crisis." rs

Frost/Nixon (Jan 18-Feb 17): In
1977, British TV show host David
Frost conducted 28 hours of inter¬
views with the disgraced ex-President
Nixon, who up until then had kept
silent on the Watergate Scandal.

Greg Carter will direct this Strawberry
Theatre Workshop production of the
famous Peter Morgan play based on
the remarkable broadcast.

I8th & Union

1406 18th Ave, 206-937-6499,

18thandunion. org

No Strings Attached (Through
Dec 16): An older woman, bereaved

of her cheating husband, plunges into
the underground swinger scene in this
sexy comedy about "personal respon¬
sibility and the right to happiness."

ACT Theatre

700 Union St, 206-292-7676, acttheatre.org

A Christmas Carol (Through
Dec 28): ACT Theatre's production of
A Christmas Carol is a dependable,
simple pleasure, with just enough
variation to warrant returning year
after year.

Ham for the Holidays: The
Hamchurian Candidate (Through
Dec 17): Lisa Koch and Peggy Platt
present their annual campy, satirical
holiday show, this time with a theme
inspired by Richard Condon's all-too-
relevant 1959 novel. They promise
favorites including "dysfunctional
country duo The Spudds, the tiny
Sequim Gay Men's Chorus, and the
angst-ridden Slam Poet."

14/48: The World's Quickest
Theater Festival (Jan 5-13): True
to its name, the 14/48 Festival turns
around 14 brand-new, theme-based,
10-minute plays in two days. The high-
pressure nature of the event produces
an evening of surprising theater for
the audience, who arrive in their seats
charged with expectation and anxiety
for the performers. Though there are
always a few experiments that don't
quite come together, it's endlessly
fascinating to see the way one theme
filters through the minds of several
very different theater artists. Expect
shit to get weird.

Annex Theatre

1100 E Pike St, 206-728-0933,
annextheatre.org

The Horse in Motion Presents IRL:
BuzzFeed (Dec 8-9): Ten original
plays will give flesh and voice to that
enduring time-waster/occasionally
surprisingly relevant news platform
Buzzfeed in all its listicle glory.

Anthea Cams, Ben Phillips, Seayoung
Yim, Bret Fetzer & Juliet Waller
Pruzan, Rheanna Atendido, Shaudi
Vahdat, Cessa Betancourt, Stefan
Richmond, and Stephen Bader have
all contributed.

Row Yr Boat (Achievement
Unlocked) (Feb 9-March 3): The
producers describe Row Yr Boat
(Achievement Unlocked) as a "dark,
surrealist romantic comedy about
drones, video games, unreality and
magic." The play follows a competi¬
tive young gamer, Rose, who is hired
by a virtual reality company—on

condition that she get married
within the year.

Safe Space (Feb 13-28): Where
do you go when your safe space is
shut down? Two girls, deprived of
their group therapy due to Medicaid
cuts, decide to continue their heal¬
ing process at a slumber party that
promptly goes wrong. They strive to
deal with eating disorders, opioids,
and misogyny aimed their way in this
drama by Kyleigh Archer.

ArtsWest

4711 California Ave SW, 206-938-0339,
artswest.org

Peerless (Jan 18-Feb 11): In Jiehae
Park's take on Macbeth, two competi¬
tive Asian American twin sisters hatch
deadly plans for a white male who
claims a fraction of Native American
heritage when he wins an affirmative
action spot at "The College."

Hir (March 1-25): Newly minted
MacArthur genius Taylor Mac
debuted this play at Playwrights
Horizons two years ago, and every¬
one went nuts about it: a darkly (and
weirdly) funny take on the dysfunc¬
tional suburban family drama that
still jerks some tears and tells some
straight truths, all the while innovat¬
ing with the genre. The dad is down
and out, and now the mom and her
transitioning son, Max, are on a "cru¬
sade to dismantle the patriarchy,"
according to the promo materials.
The prodigal son returns from a tour
in the desert just in time to see it all
explode. Watch out for this one. rs

The Ballard Underground

2220 NW Market St, 206-395-5458,
ghostlightthea tricals. org

quick bright things (Through
Dec 16): Dacha Theatre's quick bright
things is an energetic retelling of the
oft-produced Shakespearean com¬
edy A Midsummer Night's Dream.

It recasts the fairies "as the echoes
and shadows that inhabit performa¬
tive spaces—as the unspoken threat
behind all theatrical superstitions."

Twelfth Night (Jan 12-27): The
Shakespearean madcap comedy,
directed by Beth Raas-Bergquist,
depicts a world gone topsy-turvy
with cross-dressing, inappropriate
loves, mistaken identity, and other
goofy switcheroos.

Cafe Nordo

109 S Main St, 206-579-6215,
cafenordo.com

The View from Santa's Lap

(Dec 7-24): Sick of Nutcrackers and
Dickensian ghosts? Try out this
murder-filled thriller about a girl
on the run hiding in a department
store where a killer awaits. Scot
Rigsby Auguston's play promises
"Food! Music!" and "Mermaids!",
plus Auguston's famous puppets,
and apparently "you can bring your
mom this year."

The Maltese Falcon (Feb 8-April 1):
Book-lt Repertory Theatre and Cafe
Nordo will collaborate on a stage
version of the lush and gritty noir
classic The Maltese Falcon, adapted
by Jane Jones and Kevin McKeon.

As private dick Sam Spade seeks the
priceless jewel-encrusted falcon for
some sketchy clients, you'll tuck into
Nordo's special themed menu.

Center Theater

Seattle Center Armory, 206-684-7200,
sea ttlecenter. com

Ada's Violin: The Story of the
Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

(Dec 18): This show is based on the
true story of a children's orchestra
whose instruments are all handmade
from recycled materials. Your kids
can stay on after the Spanish/English
bilingual performance, which is only
35-40 minutes long, to make their
own awesome musical instruments
with the help of Seattle ReCreative.

Timon of Athens (Jan 9-Feb 4): In
Shakespeare's tragic history play,
the rich and generous Timon of
Athens discovers that all of his friends
were fair-weather when his own
fortunes turn for the worse. Seattle
Shakespeare will stage this unjustly
neglected story of misanthropy, ven¬
geance, and forgiveness.

The Conservatory

5813 Airport Way S, 206-420-3037,
theconserva torysea ttle. com

Seattle Playwrights Salon (Every
second Friday): Witness the birth
of new local theater every month
at the wonderfully atmospheric
Conservatory. Stick around to have a
drink and meet the cast and author.
The next plays are Traffick, a bloody
spy work by Spencer Funk (Dec 8);
Pamela Hobart Carter's Unhinged,
about a woman's decision to turn
to art after a close call with death
(Jan 12); and Build Your City on Flesh
and Bone, Stephanie Blucker's family

drama about a woman recovering
from a suicide attempt (Feb 9).

Cornish Playhouse at Seattle
Center

201 Mercer St, 206-441-7178,
cornish. edu/playhouse

Cornish Winter New Works
Festival (Feb 9-24): See staged read¬
ings of new plays by Cornish seniors.

Gay City

517 E Pike St, 206-860-6969, gaycity.org

Krip Resistance: To Exist Is To Resist

(Jan 11-12 & Jan 20-21): See queer art¬
ists with disabilities honor pioneers in
their movement for civil rights.

Glenn Hughes Penthouse
Theater

University of Washington, 206-543-4880,
drama. Washington, edu

Monstrosity (Through Dec 10):
Lucy Thurber's play Monstrosity is a
dark and creative play about a pair
of siblings trapped in a teenage fas¬
cist training camp. The press release
describes it as "a retelling of the
hero's tale where girls are the heroes,
youth are the powerful, and a pair of
magical, bicycle-riding twins whisper
at our deepest, darkest impulses."

12 Ophelias (a play with broken
songs) (Feb 13-25): Caridad Svich's
one-act re-imagining of Hamlet,
set in Appalachia, has made some
bold changes to the original setting.
Hamlet is redubbed as a Rude Boy,
Ophelia likes Pop-Tarts, and every¬
body rocks 'n' rolls.

Intiman Theater

201 Mercer St 206-269-1900, intiman.org

Power: From the Mouths
of the Occupied (March 16-18):
Patrisse Cullors, justice reform
advocate and co-founder of
#BlackLivesMatter, takes to the stage
to combat the silencing of black
voices. Along with Seattle activist/
writer C. Davida Ingram and a cast
of eight to 10 community members,
she'll facilitate the sharing of stories
of "rampant incarceration and State
violence" and their effect on the
black community. Rich Smith saw the
first incarnation of Power in 2016;
he described: "Many of the details in
the cast's stories revealed deep mis¬
carriages of justice happening right
here in our community, and almost
all escalated as a result of trying to
'x' while Black. Trying to drive while
Black in Seattle. Trying to exercise a
right to assemble while Black. Trying
to go to school while Black."

Jones Playhouse

4045 University Way NE, 206-543-4880,
drama. Washington, edu

Trojan Women: A Love Story

(Jan 16-28): Dido is a tarot-reader,
Cassandra's a domme, and the world
lies in ruins in this visceral adaptation
of Euripides's The Trojan Women by
Charles L. Mee.

Northwest Film Forum

1515 12th Ave, 206-267-5380,
nwfilmforum.org

Stage Russia HD: Uncle Vanya (Jan
20): Rimas Tuminas takes an innova¬
tive approach to Chekhov's source
material about hopeless loves and
existential despair. His Russian produc¬
tion will be screened at the Forum.

Clear Blue Sky (March 1-3):

Solo performer/writer/director
Paul Budraitis has worked with the
Degenerate Art Ensemble, Rough
Play Productions, and Balagan
Theater, and spent seven and a half
years studying and making theater in
Lithuania on a Fulbright scholarship.
Now, see him in Clear Blue Sky, a
multimedia storytelling/performance
art show about a plane crash.

Stage Russia HD: The Suicide

(March 18): When a man announces
his intention to kill himself out of
despair, a host of eager activists begs
him to do so in the name of their var¬
ious causes. What'll happen when he
suddenly finds he doesn't want to go
through with it? Sergey Zhenovach
directs this stage production of
Nikolai Erdman's comedy, which will
be screened at the Forum.

On the Boards

100 W Roy St, 206-217-9888,
ontheboards.org

Forced Entertainment: Real
Magic (Jan 18-20): This experimental
theater company based in the UK has

been in operation since 1984, and
their shit looks -extremely- British.
Lots of dry, dark humor about the
inability to change. Strange dura¬
tional pieces. Lots of anti-climaxes.
Oddly deployed nudity. "We're inter¬
ested in confusion as well as laugh¬
ter," they say. Real Magic seems to
fit their moldless mold. It's structured
like a weird game show wherein par¬
ticipants "endlessly revisit moments
of defeat, hope and anticipation." rs

Forced Entertainment:
Tomorrow's Parties (Jan 21): The
six artists of Forced Entertainment
from Sheffield, UK will continue their
Seattle visit with a performance of
Tomorrow's Parties, a fairground
kaleidoscope of many possible sce¬
narios of the future of civilization. See
sci-fi fancies, absurdist skits, doomy
predications, and more.

Tamara Saulwick: Endings (Feb
1-4): Tamara Saulwick meditates on
death and the afterlife in a show
combining live performance, turnta¬
ble recordings, and reel-to-reel tape
that intertwines songs, interviews,
audiocollage, and sound design.

Pacific Place II

600 Pine St #400

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Feb 22):

This screening will bring London's
National Theatre into your local
Seattle cinema, with Sienna Miller
and Jack O'Connell in Tennessee
Williams's Pulitzer-winning drama
about a sexually frustrated wife, her
husband, an heir to a cotton fortune
who's mourning his gay best friend,
and the machinations of their family.

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

(March 8): Watch the revenge and
insanity unfold in this production of
the tragedy of the prince of Denmark
starring Benedict Cumberbatch. This is
a rebroadcast of the 2015 production
at the National Theatre in London,
projected on a Seattle screen.

Seattle Children’s Theatre

201 Thomas St, 206-441-3322, sct.org

Mr. Popper's Penguins (Through
Dec 31): In this music- and dance-
filled adaptation of Richard and
Florence Atwater's 1938 children's
story, Mr. and Mrs. Popper's ordi¬
nary English town is disrupted
by some wild and crazy Antarctic
penguins.

The Little Prince (Jan 18-March 4):
The touching French children's classic
about the Little Prince, a boy from
an asteroid, will be adapted for the
stage in a tribute to "innocence and
boundless love."

The Journal of Ben Uchida:
Citizen 13559 (Feb 8-March 4): This
kid-friendly play deals with some
timely and tragic themes. When
Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor,
12-year-old Ben Uchida and his family
are rounded up in internment camps.
How does a young innocent process
the reality of systemic oppression
and hate?

Seattle Public Theater

7312 W Green Lake Dr N, 206-524-1300,
sea ttlepublictheater. org

The Flight Before Xmas (Through
Dec 24): Maggie Lee's The Flight
Before Xmas (directed by Amy
Poisson) is a sweetly comedic holiday
show about a group of strangers
in an airport connecting with each
other as their flights become more
and more delayed.

Christmastown: A Holiday Noir

(Dec 8-24): If your holiday season
lacks slinky dames, growling gum¬
shoes, and hard-boiled bosses, try
Seattle playwright Wayne Rawley's
Christmas noir.

Seattle Repertory Theatre

155 Mercer St, 206-443-2222,
seattlerep.org

The Humans (Through Dec 17):
Stephen Karam's The Humans, which
won a 2016 Tony Award for best play,
gets plaudits for its expert charac¬
terization, its subtle but gut-busting
humor, and its clear-eyed view
on contemporary family relations
despite the fact that it's a play about
a dysfunctional family spending a
dysfunctional Thanksgiving together
in Chinatown dysfunctionally. This is
the official Broadway tour, directed
by Joe Mantello. rs

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in Denzel Washington's recent film
adaptation of the play, everyone
should by now be well aware of
Fences, August Wilson's Pulitzer
Prize-winning masterpiece about
black family life in the 1950s. But
everyone—especially Seattleites
concerned with issues of gentrifica-
tion, activism, rising racial tensions,
and economic inequality—would
also do well to heap as much atten¬
tion on Wilson's Two Trains Running,
the next in his 10-play cycle. Set in
a Pittsburgh diner, Wilson reckons
with the revolutionary decade of the
1960s, when the expectations for the
future of the civil rights movement
were as high as they were uncertain.
Everyone should also by now know
that Wilson's a hometown hero,
having spent the latter years of his
life writing in the Victrola on 15th or
the (old) Canterbury on 19th. Seeing
his plays at the Rep, where his cycle
of plays was produced in full, carries
a special resonance. Juliette Carrillo
will direct, rs

Ibsen in Chicago (Feb 2-March
4): This is the world premiere of a
new play by David Grimm. Through
his 2000 production Kit Marlowe,
Grimm created a dramatized version
of theatrical history that focused on
the man surrounded by myth and
rumor: Marlowe might have been a
spy, or a heretic, or even the person
who wrote Shakespeare's best-
known works. This new play, Ibsen
in Chicago, also deals with history
and theatrics—this time, it's about
Scandinavian immigrants putting on
an Ibsen play in Chicago in 1882. Look
forward to direction by Seattle Rep
Artistic Director Braden Abraham.

Second Story Repertory

7325 166th Ave NE Ste F250, Redmond,
425-881-6777, secondstoryrep.org

A Christmas Carol (Through Dec
23): This production of Dickens's A
Christmas Carol promises "traditional
carols [...] color and movement."

Christmas Carol Junior (Through
Dec 17): For those too young and sen¬
sitive to deal with Christmas ghosts,
this adaptation casts goofy kitties as
Present, Past, and Yet to Come.

A Thousand Cranes (Jan 13-Feb
3): The courageous young girl
Sadako Sasaki was a casualty of
war—a hibakusha, the Japanese
word for someone affected by the
atomic bomb. A native of Hiroshima,
Sadako nonetheless grew up to be
strong and athletic, until her body
was overtaken by leukemia. When
a fellow patient related the legend
that someone who makes 1,000
paper cranes will be granted a wish,
she began to make the origami birds
herself. The SecondStory Repertory
will stage her true-life tale.

Wit (Jan 18-Feb 3): Margaret
Edson's brainy and deeply moving
play is a piercing study of a successful

English professor diagnosed with ter¬
minal ovarian cancer. The professor
intertwines the story of her experi¬
mental chemotherapy with her intel¬
lectual quest to understand her own
mortality. SecondStory Repertory will
stage this Pulitzer-winning play.

SIFF Film Center

305 Harrison St, 206-324-9996, siff.net

National Theatre Live: Young
Marx (Dec 17-19): The National
Theatre's production of a comedy
about the randy, broke young Karl
Marx struggling to survive in London
will be shown on the big screen.
Royal Shakespeare Company:
Twelfth Night (March 18-20): See
a Royal Shakespeare production
of the topsy-turvy, gender-bendy
comedy Twelfth Night in a recorded
performance.

The Slate Theater

815 Seattle Blvd S, thepocket.org/slate

The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

(Dec 8-17): Fern Shakespeare will
stage a comedy from early in the
Bard's career, about cross-dressing,
a love triangle, and a cantanker¬
ous dog.

Taproot Theatre

204 N 85th St, 206-781-9707,
taproottheatre. org

Camping with Henry and Tom

(Jan 24-Feb 24): Henry Ford, Thomas
Edison, and Warren G. Harding go
on a camping trip in Maryland...not
the start of a joke but a play about
three colossi of American history.

Theater Schmeater

2125 Third Ave, 206-324-5801,
schmeater.org

The Twilight Zone: Live! (Through
Dec 16): Experience the cheesy yet
unsettling 1960s thrills of the classic
Twilight Zone scripts—live.

Theatre Off Jackson

409 Seventh Ave S, 206-340-1049,
theatreoffjackson.org

The Secret and Impossible
League of the NooSphere in the
Baltimore Plot (Through Dec 16):

A league of old-timey superheroes,
including Ada Lovelace, Nicola Tesla,
and Lord Byron, harnesses their
combined consciousness to save
Abraham Lincoln in this steampunky
play by Darian Lindle.

Village Theatre

303 Front St N, Issaquah, 425-392-2202,
villagetheatre. org

The Gin Game (Jan 18-Feb 25):

A game of gin rummy turns tense
and nasty in this Pulitzer Prize¬
winning play directed by Jeff
Steitzer and starring Kurt Beattie
and Marianne Owen. Also play¬
ing at the Everett Performing Arts
Center from March 2-25.

West of Lenin

203 N 36th St 206-352-1777,
westoflenin. com

Crime + Punishment: A
Psychological Account of a
Certain Crime (Jan 5-13): The
Akropolis Performance Lab will bring
theatrical muscle and live a cap-
pella music to Dostoyevsky's intense
19th-century moral parable about a
dropout student who decides that
he has the right to commit murder if
it benefits humanity at large.

Musical Theater

The 5th Avenue Theatre

1308 Fifth Ave, 206-625-1900,
5thavenue.org

Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn

(Through Dec 31): A musical based
on the film by Gordon Greenburg
and Chad Hodge, it features songs
by Irving Berlin such as "White
Christmas" and "Easter Parade." It's
going to be the 5th's holiday show,
directed by David Armstrong and
choreographed by James Rocco. cf

Mamma Mia! (Feb 2-25): This is a
new version of the endlessly popu¬
lar Abba musical about a bride-
to-be and her desire to meet her
unknown father.

INTERMISSION! THE MUSICAL!

(Feb 9-March 4): This is the world
premiere of a new musical by Jerry
Zucker, who wrote Airplane and The
Naked Gun. He's also directing it.
According to a source, Zucker "had
been approached for years to turn
Airplane into a musical, which he
thought would be a terrible idea.
And then he started thinking about
'What if I did write a musical?' And
that's where this show came from. It
will be very much in that over-the-
top comedic vein. Two brothers get
one of those emails telling them
that a distant relative in a foreign
country you've never heard of died,
and left them a bunch of money. All
they have to do is send their check¬
ing account and routing number and
they will get this huge inheritance.
But the brothers are orphans and
are so excited to find out they had
any family in the world at all that
they buy plane tickets and fly to this
country, fall in love, [and] get swept
up in a military coup..." cf

ACT Theatre

700 Union St, 206-292-7676,
acttheatre.org

Ride the Cyclone (March 9-May
20): In this macabre musical comedy,
a teenage chamber choir is trapped
in fairground purgatory after a roller
coaster accident kills them all. Rachel
Rockwell will direct.

Erickson Theatre Off Broadway

1524 Harvard Ave, 206-329-1050,
facebook. com/ericksontheatre

Ghost Quartet (Jan 19-28): Dave
Molloy's multi-musical-genre Ghost
Quartet dramatic song cycle twines
together the stories of "two sisters, a
treehouse astronomer and a lazy evil
bear," an adaptation of the psycho-
incestuous Poe tale "The Fall of the
House of Usher," a Scheherazade
episode, and a "contemporary fable
about a subway murder."

Book-lt Repertory Theatre

305 Harrison St, 206-216-0833, book-it.org

Howl's Moving Castle (Through
Dec 30): Everything about this musi¬
cal adaptation of Howl's Moving
Castle looks good. Hayao Miyazaki's
anime, which was based on Diana
Wynne Jones's novel, is a wondrous
fairy tale about the perils of won¬
drous fairytales, and it's beloved by
all—or at least by all who harbor no
particular fondness for the Iraq war.
Book-lt's all-star cast features Sara
Porkalob, whose solo show, Dragon
Lady, floored me in all of its itera-

The Book of Mormon

Why you should see it: It has so

many awesome parts.

When/Where: January 2-14 at
Paramount Theatre.

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Solomon Georgio

tions. Expect top-notch performances
from Randall Scott Carpenter, Kate
Jaeger, and Opal Peachey, too. Justin
Huertas will compose the songs and
write the lyrics. His widely acclaimed
musical Lizard Boy debuted at
Seattle Repertory Theatre a couple
years back, he's been a touring cel¬
list with the Broadway show Spring
Awakening, and he displayed solid
comedic chops during Book-lt's pro¬
duction of Welcome to Braggsville.
He'll likely draw out as much humor
as he can from the story while still
maintaining the magic, rs

Why you should see him: He's the funni¬
est Ethiopian-born homosexual on the planet.

When/Where: January 11 at Parlor Live
Comedy Club Bellevue.

Pacific Place II

600 Pine St #400

George Takei's Allegiance on
Broadway 2017 (Dec 7): George
Takei's new musical, based on his
own family's experience during
World War II, depicts a Japanese-
American clan threatened with
deportation and internment. How
far can patriotism take a belea¬
guered minority, and how and when
should one take a stand against
injustice? This is a screening of the
Broadway performance.

Paramount Theatre

911 Pine St 206-812-3284, stgpresents.org

Elf the Musical (Through Dec
10): An oversized elf navigates
human life in the USA in this musi¬
cal show based on the 2003 film (in
which Will Ferrell romps around in
an adorable elf costume, winning
over everyone he meets with his
naivete). Tony Award nominees and
winners have lent their talents, with
songs by Matthew Sklar and Chad
Beguelin and a book by Thomas
Meehan and Bob Martin.

The Book of Mormon (Jan 2-14):
"Hello, would you like to change
religions? I have a free book written
by Jesus!" This is what Christopher
Frizzelle wrote the last time the Book
of Mormon came through Seattle
(this time it's a season option of
Broadway at the Paramount): "Has
there ever been a better time to see
a musical send-up of organized reli¬
gion? Is there anything funnier than
watching Mormon missionaries tap-
dancing? Do you realize one song is
a parody of 'Hakuna Matata' from
the Lion King ? This is the third [now
fourth] time the Book of Mormon
has toured through Seattle, and a
whole bunch of people were crying
their eyes out when they didn't get
in the last two [three] times—includ¬
ing a few Stranger staffers—so if
you're one of those people, here's
your chance. Pro tip: Praying won't
help. You gotta buy a ticket."

Hamilton (Feb 6-March 18): Lin-
Manuel Miranda is responsible for
Hamilton's book, music, and lyrics,
and he has squashed a dizzying
number of words and concepts into
this stunning production. You don't
like musicals? Fine. Try Hamilton —its
hiphop, jazz, and rap numbers have
made people all over the country
rethink their rigid anti-musical
stance, and offered them juicy, con¬
troversial history about one of their
Founding Fathers. The wildly popu¬
lar show will be here for more than
four glorious weeks.

Seattle Musical Theatre

7210 62nd Ave NE, 206-363-2809,
seattlemusicaltheatre.org

Annie (Through Dec 17): Family-
friendly musical Annie offers spunky
orphans, a benevolent millionaire,
and a very smart dog. Come for
musical theater classics like Hard
Knock Life, Easy Street, and We'd
Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover.

Ain't Misbehavin' (Feb 9-March
4): Recall the amazing days of the
Cotton Club, swing, and Thomas
"Fats" Waller in this musical by
Luther Henderson, celebrating black
musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.

Seattle Public Theater

7312 W Green Lake Dr N, 206-524-1300,
seattlepublictheater. org

Vanishing Point (Jan 25-Feb 25):
This "musical comedy-fantasy" is
about women who disappeared,
either temporarily (whodunit queen
Agatha Christie for 11 days, evan¬
gelist Aimee Semple McPherson
for three weeks) or permanently
(Amelia Earhart, RIP).

Seattle Repertory Theatre

155 Mercer St, 206-443-2222,
seattlerep.org

Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin

(Feb 23-March 18): Hershey Felder
as Irving Berlin has been collecting
accolades from up and down the
West Coast, and now, it's finally
Seattle's turn. Come for a heartfelt
tribute to the musical icon by writer/
performer Felder, practiced perfor¬
mances of a variety of songs from
Berlin's repertoire, and a cheery
depiction of American music as a
whole. David C. Nichols at the Los
Angeles Times wrote, "Indeed, the
empathy, showmanship and craft
on tap may just be the best match
of historical figure and performing
artist yet in this franchise, wholly
attuned to a gratefully participating
audience. Those who resist Felder
or Berlin are advised to skip this
one—it'll just leave more tickets for
the rest of us."

Second Story Repertory

7325 166th Ave NE Ste F250, Redmond,
425-881-6777, secondstoryrep. org

Junie B. Jones (Feb 17-March 18):
The Junie B. Jones children's series
by Barbara Park gets a stage adapta¬
tion. Your kids can root for Junie as
she starts first grade and deals with
some new challenges.

Bye Bye Birdie (March 1-24): A rock
star named Conrad Birdie disrupts
life in a small Ohio town as he asks
for one last kiss from one lucky girl
before he goes off to war. This musi¬
cal loosely based on Elvis Presley has
been a favorite of nostalgic types
and teens for the past 50+ years.

Taproot Theatre

204 N 85th St 206-781-9707,
taproottheatre. org

A Civil War Christmas: An
American Musical Celebration

(Through Dec 30): In Pulitzer-winning
playwright Paula Vogel's Christmas
play, "abolitionists, assassins, soldiers,
enslaved and free" await Christmas
Eve on the banks of the frozen
Potomac. It's a piece about hope and
peace in the darkest times.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

(Through Dec 27): Join Charlie Brown
and friends for an anti-commercial
celebration of the "true meaning of
Christmas" in this live-action adapta¬
tion of the Peanuts special.

Village Theatre

303 Front St N, Issaquah, 425-392-2202,
villagethea tre. org

Crazy For You (Through Dec 17):

See the Village Theatre's production
of a Tony-winning George Gershwin-
scored musical about a banker who
falls for a woman when he's sent to
shut down her father's theater.

Disney's Newsies (Through Dec
31): The musical about New York
City newspaper delivery boys' strike
in 1899 is based on a Disney movie,

with songs by Alan Mencken. Also
playing at the Everett Performing
Arts Center from January 5-28.

How To Break (Jan 5-14): As part
of Village Theater's Beta Series,
which debuts new and interesting
plays, this musical tells the story of
two convalescent teens who battle
despair and powerlessness through
hiphop dance.

Afterwords (Feb 16-25): In this dra¬
matic musical, a war reporter goes
through her mentor's diaries after
he's killed on the job and discovers a
mysterious love affair that leads her
to find two artist sisters.

String (March 15-April 22): The
three Fates of Greek mythology spin,
measure, and cut the threads of each
life—until one of them falls in love
on contemporary Earth and threat¬
ens the order of the cosmos.

Dance

ARC Dance Space

9250 14th Ave NW, 206-352-0798,
arcdance.org

Nutcracker Sweets (Dec 8-10):

This Nutcracker production is kid-
friendly and features students of
ARC School of Ballet alongside the
professional dancers.

Base: Experimental Arts +
Space

6520 Fifth Ave S #122, thisisbase.org

Out of Nowhere (Dec 15-16):

FACTSF of San Francisco will dance
Platform, along with soloist Petra
Zanki in collaboration with Dylan
Ward in a piece about "the politiciza¬
tion of pleasurable acts," plus Sleep
Nod in the farcical The Lesser Evils,
which references "music from 1980s
K-Mart" and old-school video games.

12 Minutes Max (Dec 6, Feb
18-19): On the Boards' longest run¬
ning program is back! Three years
ago, they replaced the show, which
features 12 (surprisingly quick
or unfortunately long) minutes
of brand-new work from Pacific
Northwest performers, with another
program called Open Studio. But art¬
ists were clamoring for a return of the
format, and OtB clearly heard their
cries. Glenn Kawasaki and Velocity
vice president Owen David curate the
comeback show, and the December
lineup includes Naphtali Beyleveld,
Lynn Tofil, Danielle Doell, Susan Fink,
Kristina Dillard, and Daniel Costa. I
am especially excited to see Doell's
piece, which is described as "a confes¬
sion on roller skates—a search for
God, love, and redemption through
pop music, the 10 Commandments,
and eight red wheels." rs

Cornish Playhouse at Seattle
Center

201 Mercer St, 206-441-7178,
cornish. edu/playhouse

Giselle Deconstruct (Jan 12-13):
The Three Yells company takes
apart the famous ballet in Giselle
Deconstruct. In the original story,
a French peasant girl dies broken¬
hearted when her love is affianced
to another. A trio of virgin-girl
ghosts brings her back from the
dead to wreak revenge on the faith¬
less man. See the classic work broken
down into "its constituent parts of
madness, death, spirits, love, grief,
revenge, and tradition."

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Live Girls! Theater presents the first
episode in its science fiction series.

Dec. 10, Jan. 14, & Feb. 18 at 7pm
THE SUNDAY NIGHT SHUGA SHAQ

The only monthly ALL PEOPLE OF
COLOR Burlesque Revue in Seattle.

Jan. 12 & 13 at 8pm

SHE-RA: STRIPPER OF POWER!

Magical powers! Daring deeds!
Awesome ladies fighting the good
fight!

Jan. 17 at 7:30pm

WHY WE STAYED

Live, first-person stories about why
people have stayed in our rapidly
growing and increasingly expensive
city — and what they had to do to
stay.

Jan. 23 at 8pm

SALON OF SHAME

Seattleites read from their worst
adolescent writing.

Jan. 26 & 27
DEARLY BELOVED:

ROCK IN PEACE

A Burlesque Immortalization of
Music Legends

Feb. 2 at 8pm

OUI OUI

A quirky brand new circus inspired
French cabaret experience.

Feb. 3 at 8pm

BARE AND BACK AGAIN

Celebrate Whisper De Corvo's 10th
Anniversary in Seattle Burlesque

Feb. 9 & 10 at 8pm

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

We examine what it means to be
performers of color.

Feb. 16 - March 18 at 8pm

BURY ME UNDER 1-5

Puppeteer Scot “Sgt Rigsby”
Augustson's latest work takes a
look at the lives being lived under
Seattle’s highways and bridges.

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Configurate (Jan 19-27): Whim
W'him will please your eyes with
three world premieres by New York
choreographer and Princess Grace
Award-winner Gabrielle Lamb, the
Switzerland-based Sadler's Wells
Global Dance Contest laureate Ihsan
Rustem, and Whim W'Him's own
founder Olivier Wevers.

PYLON III (Feb 8-9): Pylon III
wraps up a trilogy by Coleman Pester
of Tectonic Marrow Society. Dave
Segal called the previous installment
"an overwhelmingly beautiful and
harrowing experience." In the same
vein, Pylon III will explore the ten¬
sions between human bodies, archi¬
tectural sets, and technology.

Edmonds Center for the Arts

410 Fourth Ave N, Edmonds, 425-275-
4485, edmondscenterforthearts.org

Olympic Ballet: The Nutcracker

(Dec 14-17): After their performance
at the Everett Performing Arts
Center (Dec 8-10), the Olympic Ballet
Theatre will showcase their new
Act I sets in this performance of the
popular winter dance.

Lil Buck and Jon Boogz: Love
Heals All Wounds (Jan 11):
Choreographer-dancers John Boogz
and Lil Buck will perform a piece,
created through the Movement Art
Is program, that responds to social
crises while extolling diversity and
empathy.

Erickson Theatre Off Broadway

1524 Harvard Ave, 206-329-1050,
facebook.com/ericksontheatre

Buttcracker III...even more crack!

(Dec 8-17): This festive and raunchy
holiday show promises professional
dance and holiday satire set to a
hair-metal soundtrack.

Gay City

517 E Pike St, 206-860-6969, gaycity.org

Bet Ya Ungodly Things (Jan 13-14
&Jan 18-19): Neve Andromeda
Mazique-Bianco's solo dance set is
described as "A Black, One Femme,
Folk-Science Dance Fable Set
Up-South."

McCaw Hall

321 Mercer St, 206-684-7200,
mccawhali.com

George Balanchine's The
Nutcracker (Through Dec 28): If
you haven't seen this Christmas clas¬
sic since you were a kid, give it a go
this year. In 2015, PNB replaced its
beloved Maurice Sendak set with
one by Ian Falconer, who did the
Olivia the Pig books, and I'm glad
that they did. The new set is gor¬
geous in a Wes Anderson-y way,
and it reflects the genuine weird¬
ness and beauty in the story. I mean,
the last 45 minutes of this thing is
a Katy Perry video starring dancing
desserts and a glittery peacock that
moves like a sexy broken river. Bring
a pot lozenge, rs

Swan Lake (Feb 2-11): It doesn't
get more ballet than Swan Lake,
but that ain't a bad thing. You've
got Tchaikovsky's signature score.
You've got choreographers Marius
Petipa and Lev Ivanov's translation
of the dramatic swoops and lines of
the eponymous pond-dweller into
a high-velocity revenge narrative.
And, with PNB's production, you've
got Kent Stowe M's streamlined
re-configuration of all that, repack¬
aged and re-designed by the great
Ming Cho Lee. It's going to be hard
to top Carrie Imler's version of the
black swan's space-time defying
fouette series, but if there's anyone
who can at least meet Imler's power
and control, it's Lesley Rausch and
Noelani Pantastico, both of whom
absolutely nailed the challeng¬
ing principal role in Balanchine's
"Diamonds" in the fall, rs

Directors' Choice (March
16-25): Artistic Director Peter Boal
has chosen some brilliant pieces to
showcase: Slingerland Duet, featur¬
ing a "bonded pair" of dancers; a
reproduction of William Forsythe's
One Flat Thing, featuring perform¬
ers playing off one another around
20 tables; and Red Angels, in which
four dancers in red move in white
and red light to the strains of an
electric violin.

Meany Hall

UW Campus, 206-543-4880, meany.org

Dora: Tramontane (Feb 1): In
part one of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Company's Analogy trilogy, which
interrogates "race, class, gender, his¬
tory, and identity" through dance,
see an interpretation of the story
of Dora Amerlan, a French Jewish
woman who survived World War II.
Bill T. Jones, a MacArthur "genius"
fellow and Tony winner, conducted
interviews with Amelan for this piece
on memory and survival.

Lance: Pretty AKA The Escape
Artist (Feb 2): Bill T. Jones is a living
legend who stepped confidently
into the modern dance canon with
his solo piece "21," a series of poses
that he describes differently each
time he performs the piece, thus
revealing the infinite combination of
storylines and truths that the mind
can tell from the same sequence of
movements. He's been running his
company (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane)
for over three decades and produc¬
ing great work all along. This is the
second part of Bill T. Jones's trilogy,
Analogy, which the Meany Center is
presenting over the course of three
nights, which is a very rare thing
indeed. According to press materi¬
als, this section is "based on an oral
history Jones conducted with his
nephew, Lance T. Briggs" about his
"journey through the sex trade, drug
use, and excess during the 1980s." rs

Ambros: The Emigrant (Feb
3): This ballet tells the story of
W.S. Sebald's novel The Emigrants
through dance. Ambros Adelwarth
is the German valet to a wealthy
young American Jewish aviator.

Both men fall victim to trauma and
psychiatric ills in the troubling homo¬
erotic story. This is the final piece of
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's
Analogy series.

Meydenbauer Center

11100 NE Sixth St Bellevue, 425-637-
1020, meydenbauer.com

International Ballet Theatre
Presents 'The Nutcracker' (Dec

15- 22): Bellevue's own ballet com¬
pany will perform the Russian classic,
with choreography by Vera Altunina,
adapted from the original Lev Ivanov
and Marius Petipa version.

ATC International Cheer & Dance
Championship 2018 (Jan 26-28):
See competitive cheerleading by
adults and kids.

Chop Shop Dance Festival (Feb
17-18): This contemporary dance
festival has presented performances
from troupes and artists around the
world, with the goal of reaching
diverse audiences and connecting
people of all abilities with dance
instruction.

Trilogy Dance Company Annual
Performance (March 18): The
Trilogy Dance Company of the
Turning Pointe Dance Centre for
junior dancers will perform their
annual recital.

Moore Theatre

1932 Second Ave, 206-812-3284,
stgpresents.org

Mark Morris Dance Group -
Sgt. Pepper at 50: Pepperland (Feb

16- 18): The Mark Morris Dance Group
may have moved on to bigger stages
than Seattle has to offer, but don't
worry—they come back every so
often. For the 50th anniversary of Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
the group will frolic to new music by
Ethan Iverson that elaborates on the
classical and non-Western influences
on the Beatles' songs.

On the Boards

100 W Roy St, 206-217-9888,
ontheboards.org

Kate Wallich + The YC: Dream
Dances (Dec 7-10): You deserve a
nice, relaxing night out. In Dream
Dances, Dance Church deacon Kate
Wallich and her YCs are going to
give you just that. The promotional
copy contains some information
about the inspirations of spatial
geometry and "heightened real¬
ity," but when I watch the preview
videos all I see are dancers moving
very slowly, very calmly, as if they're
swimming in really delightful jelly.

Toss a minimalistic, rhythmic, loopy
score by Johnny Goss and Adnrew
J.S. on top of that, add a pot loz¬
enge, and you got yourself the best
Friday you've had in while, rs

Bebe Miller Company: In a
Rhythm (March 15-18): Bebe Miller,
who's garnered awards from some
of the most prestigious arts orga¬
nizations in the nation, will stage
her new dance works inspired by
modern and contemporary literary
masters and interrogate "the syntax
of movement."

Pacific Place II

600 Pine St #400

The Nutcracker (Dec 17): Can't
get to a local Nutcracker produc¬
tion? Watch this rebroadcast
of the Bolshoi Ballet, with Yuri
Grigorovich's lush choreography.

Romeo and Juliet (Jan 21): Former
Bolshoi Ballet director Alexei
Ratmansky will stage this version
of the famous love story, with
the brash, tender score by Sergei
Prokofiev. See it broadcast live in a
movie theater.

The Lady of the Camellias (Feb
4): The Bolshoi Ballet stages a dance
retelling of The Lady of the Camellias,
in which a courtesan enchants a
young man of noble birth, only
to be forced to give him up for an
acceptable marriage. See the ballet
rebroadcast from 2015, with Svetlana
Zakharova dancing the lead role and
music by Frederic Chopin.

The Flames of Paris (March 4): This
is a live broadcast of the revival of
Vasily Vainonen's The Flames of Paris,
a ballet depicting two young people
traveling from Marseille to Paris
to support the French Revolution.
Alexei Ratmansky directs the Bolshoi
Ballet, with music by Boris Asafiev.

Spectrum Studio Theater

800 Lake Washington Blvd, 206-325-
4161, spectrumdance.org

Iolanta (Dec 14-17): The
Spectrum Dance Company and
Spectrum school students dance the
tale of Iolanta, a princess who has
been carefully guarded from aware¬
ness of her own blindness, in a pro¬
duction choreographed by Tony- and
Bessie-winning Donald Byrd.

Velocity Dance Center

1621 12th Ave, 206-325-8773,
velocitydancecenter. org

Shift Sessions Featuring Adra

Boo (Dec 8-10): Rejoice in "lady
power" at this musical/dance night
with singer and Stranger contributor
Adra Boo, music by Caela Bailey, and
choreography by Xaviera Vandermay.

Bridge Project (Jan 25-28): In
Velocity's Bridge Project, four up-and-
coming choreographers each create
a fully produced new piece over the
course of three weeks. At the end
of their residency, you get to see the
birth of these brand-new works.

Young Manic /1 Wanted To Be
On Broadway (Feb 16-25): Amy
J Lambert's production promises
"Cunningham-style modern dance,
a few show tunes, and a glitzy light
installation" in a dance dramatiza¬
tion of childhood dreams and adult
disappointment and perseverance.

Made in Seattle: Kim Lusk

(March 9-11): Rising Seattle chore¬
ographer Kim Lusk will stage her
first evening-length work, A Dance
for Dark Horses, scored to '90s pop
music and full of parody and physi¬
cal humor.

Burlesque

Can Can

94 Pike St, 206-652-0832,
thecancan.com

Happy Hollandaise (Jan 1): The Can

Can will start the year with some
kid-friendly dancing and brunch at
this matinee.

Wonderland (Through Jan 28):
Wonderland returns! Can Can will
transform its venue into a snowy
chalet and populate it with teasing
beauties. There's also a brunch show
that's safe for kids, and there will be a
special New Year's Eve performance.

34 SEATTLE ART AND PERFORMANCE

Why you should see it: It's writ¬
ten by Young Jean Lee, who is a god.

When/Where: January 12-29 at
12th Avenue Arts.

MAX MAGERKURTH

Strip Witch: Magical
Burlesque (Jan 27): Enjoy
wild, sexy, magic-themed
burlesque.

Theatre Off Jackson

Can Can Cabaret (Feb 1-4): Can Can
offers a cabaret production paired
with a "market-fresh" menu.

Romeo + Juliet (Feb 8-May 28):
Expect something a little sexier than
your typical Shakespeare adaptation
at this modernized cabaret show ver¬
sion of the tragic tale.

Magnificent Matinee (Feb 10-May
28): Bring the kids to this tasty
brunch show, featuring Can Can
dancers doing nothing to offend
young eyeballs.

The Midnight Show (Friday-
Saturday): Sleeping is so boring when
you could be spending the wee hours
with the foxy dancers of Can Can.

Columbia City Theater

4916 Rainier Ave S, 206-723-0088,
columbiacitytheater. com

Stripped Screw Burlesque pres¬
ents: The Best Burlesque Pageant
Ever (Through Dec 9): Kutie LaBootie
and other members of Stripped
Screw crash an innocent Christmas
pageant and cause much shock,
horror, and arousal. This year's pro¬
duction guest-stars J. Von Stratton,
Juniper Jin, Lady Drew Blood, and
Miss Kitty Baby "as herself!"

Oddfellows West Hall

915 E Pine St

Burlesque 101 Student
Graduation Recital (Feb 17):

Watch brand-new tease artists
emerge from their cocoons after
taking Burlesque 101. They'll be
awarded with a "Tassel Ceremony"
at the end of the show.

Rendezvous

2322 Second Ave, 206-441-5823,
therendezvous. rocks

The Brutalesque Holiday
Onslaught (Dec 8): Holiday variety
performance will get tough and
loud at this heavy metal burlesque
extravaganza.

Sinner Saint White Elephant
Strip-a-Roke Gift Exchange
Show (Dec 15): Bring a tacky, cheap
gift to this Sinner Saint Burlesque
White Elephant party and strip
show—as well as a "new or like-
new" article for women in need at
Mary's Place. (Doing so will get you
$5 off your ticket.) There will also
be fundraising holiday karaoke.

The Emerald City Burlesque
Revue (Dec 16): Emerald City
Burlesque Revue will perform classic
and modern burlesque, with a cock¬
tail party in between each session.

A Strip in Time (Jan 7): Hot
Fawking Productions will take you
on a time travel tour of tease.

Jo Jo Stiletto's Ghostmodern
Stripbox: Nocturnal
Transmissions, a Tribute to Scott
Bradlee (Jan 18): Postmodern
Jukebox promotes vintage jazz,
swing, and pop. These burlesque
dancers will bask in the rich broth of
long-simmering tunes.

Pastie Premieres: A Burlesque
Variety Show (Jan 26): See debut
performers and new acts at this
Brazen Babes Production.

409 Seventh Ave S, 206-340-1049,
theatreoffjackson. org

The Sunday Night Shuga Shaq,
An All People of Color Burlesque
Revue (Dec 10-Feb 18): The players
of "the only monthly ALL PEOPLE
OF COLOR Burlesque Revue in
Seattle," including host Ms. Briq
House, will strut their stuff at the
progressive Theatre Off Jackson. No
nudity, but lots of titillation.

She-Ra: Stripper of Power! (Jan
12-13): Scarlett O'Hairdye and Olatsa
Assassin star in this burlesque show.

Dearly Beloved: Rock in Peace

(Jan 26-27): IvaFiero Productions
presents burlesque dancers rocking
out to departed music legends.

Bare and Back Again (Feb 3):
Whisper De Corvo fetes 10 years in
Seattle burlesque with "self-indul¬
gent sparkly silly fun," guest perfor¬
mances, a photobooth, a raffle, and
De Corvo's own talents.

Triple Door

216 Union St, 206-838-4333,
thetripledoor. net

Land of the Sweets: The
Burlesque Nutcracker (Dec
7-28): The 12th annual Land of the
Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker is
a lascivious holiday show experience
with sugar plum fairies, exciting,
clothes-dropping times, and who
knows, maybe some "woody" jokes.

Pee Wee's Burlesquehouse (Jan
6): Portland's Ivizia Dakini brings
you what you never knew your life
was missing: Pee Wee's Playhouse-
themed sexy dance.

Bohemia (Jan 19-27): This cabaret-
style musical from Mark Siano and
Opal Peachey, set in 1890s Prague,
features the music of Dvorak and
Chopin with art nouveau and Mucha.

Tulalip Resort Casino

10200 Quil Ceda Blvd, Tulalip, 360-716-
6000, tulalipresortcasino.com

Chippendales ...About Last
Night? (March 17): See the infamous
buff boys strut their stuff.

Drag

Gay City

517 E Pike St, 206-860-6969, gaycity.org

Somebody Get Me A
Chainsaw (Dec 15-16): Perhaps
you've been fortunate enough to
have been caught in the big gay
whirlwind that is Mom Finley: a tow¬
ering matriarch composed entirely
of arched eyebrows and bons mots,
she's as indelible a part of the Seattle
landscape as one of those towering
construction cranes, only with bet¬
ter angles. Her new show promises
storytelling, songs, and maybe a
little piano, which is all we could
possibly hope for in a night of the¬
ater. Listening to Mom's stories is like
riding a series of roller coasters, and
at times you'll find them too outra¬
geous to possibly be true—and yet
also too good to possibly disbelieve.

Kremwerk

1809 Minor Ave #10, kremwerk.com

Betty & Cookie's Not-So-Silent
Night (Dec 21-23): Two of the most
beloved, classiest queens in town,
Betty Wetter and Cookie Couture,
will embody the holiday spirit with
a special show about "chosen fam¬
ily" and booze. There to round out
the cast: Butylene O'Kipple (Dec 21),
Old Witch (Dec 22), and Americano
(Dec 23). Steven Palin will supply
the music.

Moore Theatre

1932 Second Ave, 206-812-3284,
stgpresents.org

A Drag Queen Christmas (Dec
29): Hosted by RuPauTs Drag Race
Season 9 contestant Trinity Taylor,
this holiday spectacular boasts
performances by all your Drag Race
favorites, like Season 9 winner Sasha
Velour, runners-up Shea Coulee and
Aja, Season 4 contestant Latrice
Royale, Season 6 alum Milk, and
Season 8's Chi Chi DeVayne.

Oddfellows West Hall

915 E Pine St

Homo for the Holidays (Dec
7-30): This annual drag and bur¬
lesque gigglefest features a bunch
of wacky little holiday-themed skits
that our own Dan Savage once
called "FUCKING GREAT... FUCKING
HILARIOUS!" DeLouRue, aka Kitten
'n Lou and BenDeLaCreme, bring
you a special with Cherdonna, Waxie
Moon, and other superqueer stars.

Re-bar

1114 Howell St, 206-233-9873,
rebarseattle.com

Dina Martina Christmas Show

(Through Dec 31): Do you appreciate
irony? Do you enjoy joy? Are you a
sucker for horrifying stories told as if
they're heartwarming, the spectacle
of beastly narcissism among the
untalented, and pop songs with the
lyrics rewritten because the singer
seems to have undergone some
kind of brain scramble? The Seattle
holiday tradition of the drag-gone-
wrong Dina Martina Christmas Show
is upon us. All we know for sure is
that that one song she sings every
year will be in it. I wouldn't miss it
for the world, cf

Rendezvous

2322 Second Ave, 206-441-5823,
therendezvous. rocks

The Gay Uncle's Journey
Through the Valley of the Dolls

(Dec 29-30): The Gay Uncle Time was,
according to Stranger contributor
Matt Baume, "an avuncular variety
show starring Santa-esque comedian
Jeffrey Robert and a rotating cav¬
alcade of local stars, drag queens,
storytellers, and weirdos," which
gave a "healthy dose of history,
comedy, and song from the gay
uncle you always wished you had
and his friends you always suspected
were up to no good." In this new
iteration, he promises to start with
Jacqueline Susann's "CLASSIC of
Trash Literature" and tear through
such topics as "ankhs, Judy Garland,
barbiturates, Dory Previn, backstage
drama, Charles Manson, breast can¬
cer, poodles, wig fights, Russ Meyer,
Patty Duke, and so much more."

Satanic Panic Theater (Jan 13): Let
nightmare drag queen Jackie Hell
escort you to the underworld, where
Strap on Halo will perform devilish
music and unconventional perform¬
ers will seduce you with dark under¬
ground burlesque.

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

801 E Pine St, 206-324-9996, siff.net

Bianca Del Rio in Peaches
Christ's 'Sheetlejuice' (Dec 12):
Demented drag legend Peaches
Christ, the "Queen of Mean," wreaks
havoc a denizen of the afterlife in
this new drag parody of the Tim
Burton cult classic.

Timbre Room

1809 Minor Ave, timbreroom.com

Dungeons & Drag Queens
On Ice: A Winterized Comedy
Adventure (Dec 9): High-concept
plays typically give me the willies.

No, I would not like to see your
Fringe show which ponders the
pressing question, "What would the
Tempest be like if it were mashed
with the plot of Aliens'?" That being
said, Matt Baume's Dungeons &

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tion to my mishmash theatrephobia.
Why? Because Baume is a prolific
nerd with a keen eye for talent, and
Dungeons & Drag Queens On Ice
features some of the most beloved
queens in town. Who doesn't want
to see Arson Nicki as a Warlock (on
ice)? Rubes, that's who. chase burns

Unicorn

1118 E Pike St, 206-325-6492,
unicornsea ttle. com

Mimosas Cabaret (Sunday): The
drag diva titaness Mama Tits will
preside over another iteration of
Mimosas Cabaret, featuring a short
musical (it's Isabella Extynn's A Boob
Job for Christmas until December
17), plus songs, comedy, dance, and
brunch.

Circus, Variety &
Performance Art

I2th Avenue Arts

1620 12th Ave, 12avearts.org

Acrobatic Conundrum: Know
No Boundaries (Through Dec 10):
This yearly circus cabaret presents
long and short acts by Acrobatic
Conundrum and special guests. Ty
Vennewitz will direct a production
with Anna Thomas-Henry, Cooper
Stanton, Emma Curtis, Mark Siano,
Melissa Knowles, Terry Crane, and
Xochitl Sosa.

The Fig Tree Waltzes (Dec 15-23):
Acrobatic Conundrum's vigorous
dance and acrobatics show will star
Jimmy Ortiz Chinchilla of Costa Rica
and evoke "a paean to the human
drive to keep playing against over¬
whelming odds."

The 5th Avenue Theatre

1308 Fifth Ave, 206-625-1900,
5thavenue.org

The Illusionists (March 15-18): Five
famous magicians—Jeff Hobson,
Kevin James, Colin Cloud, An Ha
Lim, and Jonathan Goodwin—will
make your hair stand on end with
feats of deduction, illusion, and
death-cheating.

ArtsWest

4711 California Ave SW, 206-938-0339,
artswest.org

ArtsWest Holiday Cast Party

(Through Dec 23): ArtsWest's holiday
spectacular promises spontaneity,
cheer, and music performed by a cast
of Seattle favorites.

The Conservatory

5813 Airport Way S, 206-420-3037,
theconserva toryseattle. com

La Petite Mort's Anthology of
Erotic Esoterica (Every last Friday):
See "the darker side of performance
art" at this eerie, secretive variety
show with circus arts, burlesque,

music, and more. Feel free to wear a
mask if you'd rather not be seen.

Hale’s Palladium

4301 Leary Way NW, 206-782-0737,
halesbrewery. com

Amazing Bubble Man (Dec 28-29):
Internationally performing Louis
Pearl will make magic with every
variety of bubble—"square bubbles,
fog and helium bubbles, giant bub¬
bles," and more—while revealing the
science behind them.

Kat Robichaud's Misfit Cabaret
Presents: Grimm (March 1-10): The
Voice finalist Kat Robichaud and her
cohorts promise "decadence, bawdi¬
ness, and damsels (not) in distress."

Marymoor Park

6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway
NE, Redmond, 206-205-3661,
marymoorconcerts. com

Love, Chaos, and Dinner

(Through April 29): Beloved circus/
cabaret/comedy institution Teatro
ZinZanni will return to Seattle for a
dinner theater production of Love,
Chaos, and Dinner. They promise "the
same stunning, velvet-laden, and
iconic Belgian spiegeltent Seattleites
will remember from Teatro ZinZanni's
former location on lower Queen
Anne." The cast is led by first-time
"Madame ZinZanni" Ariana Savalas,
and will feature a duo on aerial
trapeze, a magician, a "contortionist-
puppet," a yodeling dominatrix, a
hoop aerialist, and a Parisian acrobat.

Meany Hall

UW Campus, 206-543-4880, meany.org

Feathers of Fire (March 14):
Hamid Rahmanian's cinematic
shadow puppet/live actor show
adapts a love story from a 10th-cen¬
tury Persian epic tale, Shahnameh,
set to original music by Loga Ramin
Torkian and Azam Ali. Its movie-like
qualities have been praised by none
other than Francis Ford Coppola.

Moore Theatre

1932 Second Ave, 206-812-3284,
stgpresents.org

Markiplier (Jan 13): YouTube
star Mark Edward Fischbach, aka
Markiplier, has captured the hearts
and minds of the teenagers in our
lives, mainly by recording vlogs and
commentary on video games.

Northwest Film Forum

1515 12th Ave, 206-267-5380,
nwfilmforum. org

The Shadow Council (Jan 24-Feb
28): The "mudpie lobbed into the
halls of power" known as Brett
Hamil's Seattle Process show has
been so successful that it now has a
spin-off: the Shadow Council's panel
leads the "people's legislative body"
to vote on proposals, which will be
submitted afterwards to elected offi¬

cials. If ever there were a time for
sharp comedy and politics to mix....

The Seattle Process with Brett
Hamil (Feb 2): Described as "Seattle's
only intentionally funny talk show"
and "a mudpie lobbed into the halls
of power," The Seattle Process with
Brett Hamil offers politics, exaspera¬
tion, information, and comedy. Past
esteemed guests have included
Stranger Genius Lindy West, Kshama
Sawant, former Stranger associate
editor David Schmader, and Pramila
Jayapal. This installment features
Cary Moon and interim council mem¬
ber Kirsten Harris-Talley. Plus, Kevin
Murphy of the Moondoggies will
give a closing performance.

The Future Is 0 (Feb 16-17): This
DIY game show (filmed with a live
studio audience right here in Seattle)
is described as "equal parts Double
Dare 2000, nihilist performance art,
and sarcastic TV experiment."

Paramount Theatre

911 Pine St 206-812-3284, stgpresents.org

Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Dec
22-24): This lavish circus performance
is chock full of holiday icons like
gingerbread men, snowmen, angels,
Santa, ornaments, and others—all
performing acrobatic feats in 300
costumes and 20 acts.

The Pocket Theater

8312 Greenwood Ave N, 303-803-4589,
thepocket.org

Objectified (Or Whatever)

(Dec 8): Musical satirist Carly OMFG
composes heartbreaking ditties for
YouTube like "Dave Beck Won't Add
Me Back On Facebook," about an
unrequited social media crush on a
98.1 Classical King FM. See the youth¬
ful pianist/comedian in the flesh.

Dollhouse (Dec 10 & Dec 16): A
team of performers reads descrip¬
tions of haunted dolls on eBay. The
Stranger accepts no responsibility for
any evil spirits that may or may not
follow you home.

Christmas Shitshow (Dec 17-19): If
you crave Christmas nonsense rather
than endless reiterations of carols,
try this show about two people on a
"peyote fueled vision quest" for the
meaning of the holiday.

Taproot Theatre

204 N 85th St, 206-781-9707,
taproottheatre. org

Short Stories Live: A Rogue's
Christmas (Dec 10): This is the holi¬
day edition of "Short Stories Live," a
performance featuring short stories,
poems, and music.

Theatre Off Jackson

409 Seventh Ave S, 206-340-1049,
theatreoffjackson. org

Oui, Oui (Feb 2): Unlikely to visit the
Moulin Rouge anytime soon? This cir¬

cus will bring you a Seattle substitute
with acrobats and cabaret acts.

Dear White People (Feb 2-3):
Samuel L. JackYouSon's variety
show is meant to "Bring levity to
political language and invite new
perspectives" through a mixture of
live music, burlesque, poetry, dance,
and spoken word. Featured talent
includes Taqueet$, Boom Boom
L'Roux, Anastacia Renee, and the
Black Tones.

Bury Me Under 1-5 (Feb 16-March
10): Sgt Rigsby & His Amazing
Silhouettes—that is, Scot Augustson
Rigsby and his shadow puppets—
bring you a show with witty Foley
sound effects.

Various locations

Across Seattle

Moisture Festival (March
15-April 9): The Moisture Festival
unites a vast kaleidoscope of bur¬
lesque and variete performers.
Whomever you fancy—clowns,
comedians, tightwire artists, aerial-
ists, jugglers, singers—you can find
someone who's traveled from
far-flung regions to entertain you.
There will also be a special New
Year's Eve Extravaganza at Hale's
Palladium, featuring funk, juggling,
aerial acts, balloons, snacks, and
champagnes.

West of Lenin

203 N 36th St, 206-352-1777,
westoflenin. com

The Panel Jumper Live: Chapter

V (Dec 8): The multimedia Panel
Jumper series takes you deep into the
art of comic books and graphic nov¬
els. To honor the art form, actors will
stage Bret Fetzer and Juliet Waller
Pruzan's short play Stop, Thief!, and
there will be a screening of the Panel
Jumper web series, dealing this time
with 1950s paranoia about "cor¬
ruption of the innocent" by comics.
Plus, Aaron J. Shay will play music,
Sally Savant will dance titillatingly, a
"superhero epic" will be told, Kazu
Kibuishi (author of Amulet) will
speak, and more.

Podcasts & Radio

ACT Theatre

700 Union St, 206-292-7676,
acttheatre.org

Snowflakes (Dec 29): Sandbox
Radio's Snowflakes retro-engineers
a radio show with live sound effects
accompanying plays, poetry, and
comedy, all recorded before your
very eyes.

Hale’s Palladium

4301 Leary Way NW, 206-782-0737,
halesbrewery. com

The Other Washington Live
Podcast (Dec 11): Nick Hanauer, a
progressive-leaning venture capital¬

ist, and his politics junkie friends will
tape an episode of their podcast,
which they say defies conventional
wisdom on policy.

Kenyon Hall

7904 35th Ave SW, 206-937-3613

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live
Radio Play (Dec 8-17): Twelfth
Night Productions and playwright
Joe Landry will adapt the Frank
Capra film It's a Wonderful Life into
a "live radio play." Watch George
Bailey discover the value of his own
life with the help of a folksy angel.

Moore Theatre

1932 Second Ave, 206-812-3284,
stgpresents.org

Sam Harris and the 'Waking
Up' Podcast (Dec 6): "More than
half of our neighbors believe that
the entire cosmos was created
six thousand years ago, about a
thousand years after the Sumerians
invented glue," Sam Harris writes
in his concise and satisfying book
Letter to a Christian Nation, a take¬
down of American wing nuts. He
adds, "Anyone who cares about the
fate of civilization would do well to
recognize that the combination of
great power and great stupidity is
simply terrifying." He wrote that in
2006, mind you. It couldn't be more
urgent now. Harris also hosts the
Waking Up podcast. This event is a
live recording, cf

Stuff You Should Know

(Jan 15): The Stuff You Should
Know podcast explains how things
work, from global warming to
giraffes to personalized medicine to
restaurant inspections. Check them
out if you want a general introduc¬
tion to...stuff.

Neptune Theatre

1303 NE 45th St, 206-682-1414,
stgpresents.org

Welcome to Night Vale (Dec
7): Created by Joseph Fink and
Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night
Vale is the twice-monthly podcast
that presents itself as a news-radio
show for a fictional town where
all conspiracy theories are true. In
style and content, the show blends
Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon
with David Lynch's Twin Peaks,
and the results are deeply weird
and beguiling. Tonight, Night Vale
comes to life onstage.

Live Wire with Luke Burbank

(Dec 9): Luke Burbank's Live Wire
is an NPR-type variety program
based in Portland, Oregon, featur¬
ing artists, writers, filmmakers,
and musicians in conversation. At
this live recording, Burbank will
moderate a panel with Seattle civic
poet Anastacia-Renee, Buzzfeed
commerce editor Emmy Favilla, and
singer-songwriter Laura Gibson.

Triple Door

216 Union St, 206-838-4333,
thetripledoor. net

NoSleep Podcast (Feb 21): If
you love scary stories but (under¬
standably) want to stay off Reddit
forums, check out this live version
of the NoSleep podcast, which orig¬
inated online as a treasure trove of
spooky stories.

University Temple United
Methodist Church

1415 NE 43rd St, 206-632-5163,
utemple.org

Lux Radio Theater: The Bishop's
Wife (Dec 8): Seattle Radio Theatre
and KIRO Radio will stage a produc¬
tion of the 1947 movie The Bishop's
Wife, about a meddlesome angel
who (he claims) descends from
heaven to help a harried clergy¬
man—and enchants the man's sweet-
natured wife. Expect live sound
effects, organ music, and pre-show
audience interaction.

Washington State Convention
& Trade Center

800 Convention PI, 206-694-5000,
wsctc.com, daily

PodCon (Dec 9-10): This conven¬
tion of podnerds will spend two days
producing livecasts, performances,
panels, and more. A sampling of the
guests: Dylan Marron (Welcome to
Night Vale), Phoebe Judge & Lauren
Spohrer {Criminal), Aaron Mahnke
{Lore), and Rod & Karen Morrow
{The Black Guy Who Tips).

Benaroya Hall

200 University St, 206-215-4700,
seattlesymphony. org

Adam Sandler & Friends (Jan
22): Adam Sandler of Grown Ups
notoriety (and star in many better
movies, like The Meyerowitz Stories
by Noah Baumbach) will perform
live, no doubt with an arsenal of
silly songs.

Comedy Underground

109 S Washington St, 206-628-0303,
comedyunderground. com

Julian Michael (Dec 7-9): Comedian,
minister, and radio host Julian
Michael was finalist of the World
Series of Comedy. Hear what he's
got to say.

Mo Mandel with Hans Kim (Dec
29-30): Producer and actor Mo
Mandel (2 Broke Girls, Hampton
Deville, Comedy Knockout, Chelsea
Lately) will show off his stand-up
chops, with local comedian Hans
Kim opening.

Greg Romero Wilson (Dec 31):

Greg Romero Wilson of World's
Dumbest and White Boyz in the
Hood, and a guest on Modern
Family, Bones, Ugly Betty, Law &
Order, and others, will midwife the
new year.

Crocodile

2200 Second Ave, 206-441-4618,
thecrocodile. com

Ari Shaffir (March 1): Ari Shaffir,
host of This Is Not Happening on
Comedy Central, will perform a set.

Greg Proops (March 12): Greg
Proops of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
fame also hosts the podcast The
Smartest Man in the World, which
records across the globe. He'll bring
his fierce lefty wit to Seattle, where
no doubt it will be most welcome.

Edmonds Center for the Arts

410 Fourth Ave N, Edmonds, 425-275-
4485, edmondscenterforthearts.org

Paula Poundstone (March 9-10):
Paula Poundstone is a divisive come¬
dian. She placed at 88 on Comedy
Central's 2004 list of top 100 stand-
ups list while clocking in at number
6 for Maxim magazine's 2007 list
of "Worst Comedians of All-Time."
Well-known for her stints on NPR's
news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't
Tell Me, she specializes in relatable,
everyday anecdotes that come
loaded with humorous twists, often
glazed with self-deprecation and
mild absurdity. There's something
Seinfeldian about her act, but she's
a bit goofier overall than Jerry.
Poundstone's a seasoned pro, albeit
not with the spiciest ingredients.

On March 9, she'll perform at the
Pantages Theater in Tacoma, ds

Laughs Comedy Club

5220 Roosevelt Way NE, 206-526-5653,
laughscomedyclub. com

Josh Johnson (Dec 8-9): Josh
Johnson, a Just For Laughs festival
"New Face"in 2016 and a self-
described "non-alpha male [...] but
a three-before-omega" will swing
by Seattle.

Home for the Holidays Showcase

(Dec 21-28): Laughs presents the
venue's favorite local comedians.

Andrew Sleighter (Dec 29-31):
Andrew Sleighter's many credits
include co-writing for the Sports
Show with Norm Macdonald and
playing pranks on MTV's Money
From Strangers, as well as appear¬
ances at Bumbershoot and on Conan
and Last Night Standing. The Seattle
native riffs on underemployment,
money, and more with accessible,
decent-natured humor.

Moore Theatre

1932 Second Ave, 206-812-3284,
stgpresents.org

Lewis Black (Jan 20): The old,
white, alpha-male ranter is a famil¬
iar figure in comedy, stated Captain
Obvious. But Lewis Black might be
the paragon of this tradition, per¬
haps the last such uber-curmudgeon
we'll ever need (although probably
not, seeing as how the world's
going). Looking like a more brutish
Al Franken, Black bellows in a bari¬
tone a litany of insults and outrages
to his sensibilities. From the most
minuscule mundanities to the horror

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show of politics to the most cosmic
injustices, Black pinpoints their infu¬
riating truths—laced with a power¬
ful arsenal of profanity. Incredible
catharsis ensues, ds

Ricky Gervais (Jan 27): Welcome
the prickly British comedian, creator
of The Office, Extras, and Derek,
on his stand-up comeback tour,
Humanity.

Neptune Theatre

1303 NE 45th St, 206-682-1414,
stgpresents.org

Hari Kondabolu (Dec 15): If you
like your political/cultural humor
astute, subtle, and punching from
the left, Hari Kondabolu is your
man. The former Seattle comic's
career has been ascending over
the last five or so years, with writ¬
ing gigs for Totally Biased with W.
Kamau Bell, appearances on late-
night TV shows (John Oliver, Jimmy
Kimmel, David Letterman, etc.),
and acclaimed albums on stalwart
indie-rock label Kill Rock Stars. From
his Waiting for 2042 LP: "Saying I'm
obsessed with racism in America is
like saying I'm obsessed with swim¬
ming when I'm drowning." ds

Christopher Titus (Dec 16): Hard¬
working comic Christopher Titus has
recently come out with his seventh
Comedy Central special. See him on
his joke "presidential run" tour.

Ryan Hamilton (Jan 13):

Idahoan Ryan Hamilton, his enor¬
mous smile, and his gentle burring
voice are coming to charm Seattle.
Check out why Rolling Stone
named this Great American Comedy
Festival winner one of five comics
to watch.

Steven Wright (Jan 20): To
keep audience members gripping
their sides with laughter merely
by deadpanning terse absurdities
and dispensing hilariously improb¬
able scenarios in one or two lines
is genius. Poker-faced and bearing
a ridiculous hairline, Wright is the
master of succinct surrealism and
once-in-a-millennium ideas. Even the
way he says "thanks" will kill you. I
remember bits like "The ice-cream
truck in my neighborhood plays
'Helter Skelter'" and "I was cesarean
born, but you can't tell. Although,
whenever I leave the house, I go
out the window," as if it they were
hit singles from my misspent youth.
Wright is a hero for monotone¬
voiced wise guys worldwide, ds

Pantages Theater

901 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, 253-591-
1013, broadwaycenter.org

Lily Tomlin (Dec 16): If you've
only seen her in Grace & Frankie or
Grandma, Grab your chance to wit¬
ness six-time Emmy and two-time
Tony winner Lily Tomlin continue
her multi-decade streak of being
really, really funny.

Paramount Theatre

911 Pine St, 206-812-3284,
stgpresents.org

John Mulaney (Dec 12-13):
Baby-faced John Mulaney has
worked on SNL (he's partially
responsible for "Stefon"), starred
on Oh Hello on Broadway, released
three stand-up specials, and won
an Emmy. Catch him on his Kid
Gorgeous tour.

Parlor Live Comedy Club
Bellevue

700 Bellevue Way NE Suite 300,
Bellevue, 425-289-7000

Bill Bellamy (Dec 7-9): Bill
Bellamy ( The Bounce Back, Def
Comedy Jam), supposedly the
coiner of the term "booty call," will
swing round to Seattle with some
delicious new collocations. See the
man about whom Charles Mudede
once wrote: "Just look at the fine
brother. That skin, those eyes, those
lips—to use the words of Dr. Dre:
'Make a ho's panty wet.'"

For the Record (Dec 10): At For
The Record, local stand-up comics
are recorded performing so they
can send audition reels to festivals
and TV programs. Come watch and
root for the hometown hopefuls.

Tony Rock (Dec 22-23): It would
be unfair to refer to Tony Rock
(Busted!, Think Like A Man, C'Mon
Man) only as the younger brother
of Chris Rock, because he has a
career in his own right, including as
the host of The Game of Dating.

Steve Byrne with Gary Cannon

(Dec 29-30): Steve Byrne ( Sullivan &
Son, Couples Retreat) is a regular
on late night talk shows and has
toured nationally alongside Russell
Peters, Gabriel Iglesias, and Lisa
Lampanelli.

New Year's Eve Comedy Classic
featuring Steve Byrne, Gary
Cannon & Corrine Fisher (Dec
31): Spend a giggly New Year's with
Steve Byrne ( Sullivan & Son), Gary
Cannon (Conan), Corrine Fisher
(Guys We F*cked), and special
guests.

Dustin Ybarra (Jan 4-6): Texas
native Dustin Ybarra (Gotham,

The Goldbergs, Battle Creek,
Californication) will perform com¬
edy, perhaps about drunk munchies,
bad jobs, gross bathrooms, and
gross bathrooms at bad jobs.

Solomon Georgio (Jan 11):

The formerly local comedian twice
took top honors at The Stranger
Gong Show and became a frequent
Stranger contributor before he had
to leave Seattle for the pro-comedy
hub of LA. He has since performed
on Conan O'Brien. I'll never forget
the first time I saw Georgio per¬
form, explicitly presenting himself
onstage as an Ethiopian-born male
homosexual, then proceeding to
tell jokes—topics included: his
name, his gayness, and Disneyfied
genocide—that surprised, chal¬
lenged, and delighted the whole
crowd. Georgio has since appeared
on Conan and Adam Ruins
Everything as well as hosting on
Vice's Flophouse. He's acted in Ball
or Nothing and White Flight, ds

James Davis: Hood Adjacent
Comedy Tour (Jan 12-14): "Hood
Adjacent" comic James Davis made
comedy out of his attempts to
get a "hood pass" despite being
a Pomona College English major.
Now, hear his verbal wit, perhaps
about being a "professional token
black friend."

Gary Owen (Jan 18-20): Gary
Owen (Think Like A Man Too,

Think Like A Man, Daddy Day
Care) has been called "Funniest
Serviceman in America" and "Black
America's Favorite White Comic."
See why at the Parlor.

The Dope Show (Jan 24): Tyler
Smith's Dope Show will waft its
way to Bellevue. Comedians will
perform their set, smoke up during
the break (some of them for their
very first date with Mary Jane),
then attempt to do another set
stoned off their asses.

Nate Bargatze (Jan 25-27):
Tennessee's Nate Bargatze (The
Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon)
has been called "a comic who
should be big" by Marc Maron.
Given that he's the son of a clown/
magician, he probably has weirder
observational humor than most.

Brad Williams (Feb 15-17): Brad
Williams (Jimmy Kimmel Live,

Legit) does observational comedy
about awkward situations, includ¬
ing those that arise from his life as
a man with achondroplastic dwarf¬
ism in a world where people find
dwarves strange or adorable.

Kountry Wayne (March 8-10):
Kountry Wayne (also known as
Wayne Colley) has a massive fol¬
lowing on social media sites like
Facebook and YouTube—with
videos including "When see¬
ing a Donald Trump supporter
goes wrong!" and "When your
girlfriend fart stank!"—and for a
weekend in Bellevue he'll deliver
some live comedy.

Vir Das (March 15-17):

Extremely popular Bollywood
comedian and actor Vir Das (who
has appeared in films includ¬
ing BadMaash Company, Delhi
Belly, and Revolver Rani, and has
performed stand-up comedy all
over the world) will grace humble
Bellevue.

Rendezvous

2322 Second Ave, 206-441-5823,
th eren dezvo us. ro cks

An Evening with Courtney
Karwal (Dec 28): Seattle-raised
Courtney Karwal is now based in
Los Angeles, where she was named
Comic to Watch at Riot. Welcome
her home to perform a long set.

Tacoma Dome

2727 East D Street, Tacoma, 253-272-
3663, tacomadome.org

Jeff Dunham: Passively
Aggressive (March 10):
Ventriloquist/comedian Jeff
Dunham will bring his one-man
cast of characters to Tacoma.

Triple Door

216 Union St, 206-838-4333,
thetripledoor.net

Adam Ray (Feb 24): LA-based
Adam Ray (Ghostbusters, The Heat)
will return to his hometown of
Seattle for a comedy set.

Improv

Jet City Improv

5510 University Way NE, 206-352-8291,
jetcityimprov. org

Uncle Mike Ruins Christmas

(Through Dec 23): Mike Murphy
(Uncle Mike) re-enacts and tramples
over your fond Christmas memories
in a happily vulgar performance.

Nancy You (Through Dec 22): This
improv show asks that you give
teenage sleuth Nancy a mystery to
solve, then watch as the company
improvises a solution.

Winter Wonderprov (Dec 10): Jet
City Improv's stars turn their pow¬
ers of goofiness to good use at this
benefit show for the Seattle Times
Fund for the Needy, which in turn
helps fund Childhaven, Big Brothers
Big Sisters, Asian Counseling and
Referral Service, and other socially
active nonprofits.

Rendezvous

2322 Second Ave, 206-441-5823,
theren dezvo us. ro cks

An Improvised Hip Hopera:
Yuletide Remix (Dec 20-21): The
Improvised Hip Hopera is back in
holiday form. Spontaneous rap,
beatboxing, and hiphop will punc¬
tuate a seasonal tale.

Unexpected Productions’
Market Theater

1428 Post Alley, 206-587-2414,
unexpectedproductions.org/location

A(n Improvised) Christmas
Carol (Through Dec 24): You may
think you know the story of A
Christmas Carol, but you have no
idea. Watch a team of improvisers
re-create Dickens's tale based on
audience suggestions.

Xtreme New Year's
Theatresports Party (Dec 31):
Unexpected Productions will
pit four improv teams against
one another at their New Year's
celebration—and you will score
each contestant group's efforts.
Complete with giveaways, party
favors, a ball drop, and a cham¬
pagne toast.

Cotton Gin: An Improvised
Puppet Show For Grown-Ups

(Jan 5-Feb 17): Rowdy, bawdy pup¬
pets, worn out from entertaining
children, hang out at the Cotton
Gin bar and entertain you with
songs and jokes in this improv show.

Comedy of Love (Feb 14): Make
your Valentine's Day spontane¬
ous and silly at this show inspired
by your loves, lusts, and romantic
mishaps.

Various locations

Across Seattle

Seattle Festival of Improv
Theater (Feb 14-18): Improvisors
from all over will come to Seattle
to participate in the Seattle Festival
of Improv Theater over five days.
Come for parties, master classes,
workshops, and of course, lots of
hilarious theater.

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READINGS & TALKS

By Joule Zelman and Rich Smith

Fran Lebowitz

Why you should see her: She's
the funniest person currently living.

When/Where: February 18 at
Benaroya Flail.

CHRISTOPHER MACSURAK

and Ghazala Khan's son
Humayun was killed in
action in Iraq in the 2000s.

Florangela Davila will
engage Khan in conversa¬
tion about his new book,

An American Family,
which details his grief, his family life,
and his convictions.

Seattle University, Campion
Ballroom, 7 pm, free

DEC 8-9

★ Tara Hardy

Tara Hardy will revive her medita¬
tion on her own illness and mortal¬
ity, the Washington State Book
Award-winning My, My, My, My, My,
for the stage as a one-woman show
called Why Should Just the Pretty
Survive? But she won't be lonely up
there: Each night, she'll be joined
by prominent local artists, includ¬
ing Elissa Ball, Ebo Barton, Jourdan
Imani Keith, Nikki Agee, billie rain,
and Tobi Hill Meyer.

Gay City, 7 pm, $10/$ 15

DEC 9

Write-O-Rama: Winter 2017

Get the maximum amount of instruc¬
tion from Hugo House's excellent
prose writers and poets at this annual
event featuring six hours of hourlong
mini-workshops and talks.

Hugo House First Hill, 12-6 pm, $60

DEC II

★ Hillary Rodham Clinton

This reading is already sold out
because of course it is, but in case any
of the current ticket-holders suddenly
come down with "pneumonia,"
you should know that the former
Secretary of State / the first woman
to win a major party nomination for
the presidency is coming to town to
tell you her side of the story, the one
about the campaign we all watched
with increasing dread (and misplaced
confidence) during the Year of Our
Dark Lord Satan 2016. She wrote it all
down in What Happened, which, like
Clinton herself, has drawn everything
from blazing critiques to glowing
paeans to dead-eyed shrugs. If you
can slip through the doors of the
Paramount this evening, you'll get to
judge for yourself, rs
Paramount Theatre, 7:30 pm, (sold out)

Jonathan Sposato

GeekWire cofounder Jonathan
Sposato has written a book draw¬
ing on his experience in boosting
gender equality in business, Better
Together: 8 Ways Working with
Women Leads to Extraordinary
Products and Profits. Get a sample
of his insights at this reading.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

",k Sebastian Bach

Solo artist and Skid Row lead singer
Sebastian Bach, who has toured with
artists including Bon Jovi and Guns
N' Roses and appeared on TV shows
including Gilmore Girls, shares "lurid
tales of excess and debauchery" in his
new memoir, 18 and Life on Skid Row.
University Book Store, 7 pm

DEC 12

★ Annual Holiday Reading with
Brad Craft

Join the Book Store's beloved
used books buyer, Brad, to revel
in Truman Capote's "A Christmas
Memory," a tale of making
Christmas traditions with his older
cousin "from buying illegally made
whiskey for their fruitcakes to
cutting down their own tree and
decorating it with homemade orna¬
ments." Have some cookies and
cider while you listen to this unchar¬
acteristically sweet Capote story.
University Book Store, 7 pm, free

Melinda Mueller and Lori
Goldston

Local poet Melinda Mueller will
read from Mary's Dust, a Seattle-
published poetry book about 32
people named Mary. The book
includes a download of music by
cellist Lori Goldston. Mueller will
also share part of her book-length
novel, The After.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

Sam Wasson with Andrew
McMasters

Sam Wasson's new book Improv
Nation: How We Made A Great
American Art reveals the story of
how experimental theater in 1950s

DEC 6

★ A Conversation with
Tom Hanks

The perennially likable star just
came out with his first book, titled
Uncommon Type: Some Stories and
composed of 17 works of short fic¬
tion. Apparently he just wrote them
on the side while filming movies,
because some people never need
to sleep.

McCaw Hall, 7:30 pm, $60-$175

Lit Fix 20: Winter Hinterland

Lit Fix is Seattle's "dive-friendliest"
reading and music series, which
brings together books, bars, and
bands all in one place. At this edi¬
tion, you'll hear from local writer
Kamari Bright, LA novelist and
filmmaker Stephen Elliott, Flannery
O'Connor Award-winning Becky
Mendelbaum, poet/nonfiction
author Michael Schmeltzer, and
Seattle-area musician Bridgitte Kern.
Chop Suey, 7-9 pm, $5

★ Word Works: Jess Walter

National Book Award finalist,
Washington State Book Award win¬
ner, and co-podcaster with Sherman
Alexie Jess Walter will give a talk
called "On the Clock, Time, and the
Fiction Writer," delving into the sense
of time in fiction—and for the writer.
Washington Hall, 7 pm, $15

DEC 7

★ Dan Rather: What Unites Us

In the midst of post-Trump anxiety,
Dan Rather's rational, morally solid
musings on social media have become
a source of much-needed sanity.
Rather, one of the most celebrated TV
journalists ever (he covered the news
on CBS over several decades, including
the 1968 Democratic convention, the
Kennedy assassination, Watergate,
and 9/11) will present his new book
What Unites Us, about quintessential
American institutions that really do
make us great.

University Temple United Methodist
Church, 7 pm, $23 (sold out)

Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan runs the History of
Rome podcast, which covers the soci¬
ety from its inception to the fall of
its Western half. His new book con¬
cerns the latter days of the Republic,
before it became an autocratic

empire: The Storm Before the Storm:
The Beginning of the End of the
Roman Republic.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

it Neil Patrick Harris

Dapper showman Neil Patrick Harris
has turned his talents to kids' litera¬
ture in a story of a street magician, his
New England friends, and an unscru¬
pulous circus boss, The Magic Misfits.
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 6:30 pm, $5
(sold out)

★ Poetry Across the Nations: An
Indigenous Reading

Natalie Diaz is the author of the
award-winning collection of poetry
When My Brother Was an Aztec
(Copper Canyon Press). (She's also a
very accomplished ball player, but
that's for another blurb.) Her other
work involves doing cool things like
partnering with the Hugo House and
Poetry Foundation to create Poetry
Across the Nations, "a community
outreach program facilitated by
Native women." Basically, they host
readings and workshops to build
"intercultural and intertribal" net¬
works. While she's here, Muckleshoot
poet Celeste Adame and Diaz will
offer a free poetry workshop for
Native writers. There will also be a
reading, open to all, featuring Diaz,
Suquamish poet Cedar Sigo (who has
a couple very good collections out
on Wave), East Shawnee poet and
UW grad Laura Da', Muscogee poet
Jennifer Foerster ( Leaving Tulsa),
and Acoma Pueblo poet Sara Ortiz.
These poets employ a wide range of
styles, from narrative stuff to hyper-
lyrical stuff to wildly experimental
stuff, so there will be something for
everyone, provided your something
involves good poetry, rs
Fred Wildlife Refuge, 7 pm, free

DEC 8

★ Khizr Khan

It would be unfair to say that Khizr
Khan became famous for the harsh
and baseless words then-presidential
candidate Donald Trump leveled
at him after the Gold Star father
spoke in favor of Hillary Clinton at
the Democratic Convention. Khan
made a national impression because
of his patriotism and calm dignity
under pressure. In case you don't
remember the background, Khizr

Chicago led to the birth of a new
type of comedy, and of how the
new form influenced movie and TV
acting. Hear him set forth the case
for improv as America's great the¬
ater innovation.

Jet City Improv, 7:30 pm, $5

DEC 13

★ Maryn McKenna

Americans eat truly stupendous
amounts of chicken, but what exactly
goes into the bird we so love to roast,
fry, bake, and turn into gummy nug¬
gets? Maryn McKenna tells the story
of the animal and the agriculture in
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of
How Antibiotics Changed Modern
Agriculture and Changed the Way
the World Eats, with a focus on anti¬
biotics and colossal agri-business.
Impact HUB Seattle, 7:30 pm, $5

DEC 14

★ Annie Leibovitz

The renowned photographer—she's
captured such iconic images as naked
John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen's
bum, and pregnant Serena
Williams—will speak about her life's
work. Pick up a copy of the new
collection Annie Leibovitz: Portraits
2005-2016 at this Town Hall event.
Campion Ballroom, 7 pm, $5-$99

DEC 15

-k EJ. Koh, Mita Mahato,
Montreux Rotholtz, and
Jane Wong

E.J. Koh, notable for what Stranger
critic Rich Smith calls her "intense,
image-driven poetry," will share
poetry from her award-winning
debut collection A Lesser Love.

She'll be joined by other emerging
local poets: Mita Mahato, Montreux
Rotholtz, and Jane Wong.

Elliott Bay Book Company,

7:30 pm, free

Seattle CityClub Year in Review

Prepare for another hair-raising—and
maybe hopeful?—year with experts
like Jorge Baron of the Northwest
Immigrant Rights Project, WA State
Senator Joe Fain, journalist Blaine
Harden of the New York Times and
PBS, and President of Seattle Central
College Sheila Edwards Lange.

Seattle CityClub, 12 pm, $15/$65

★ Someday We'll All Be Free:
Patrisse Cullors and Luis
Rodriguez

Activists, lawyers, and community
leaders will reflect on how libraries
can contribute to "a future without
prisons" and help reform the crimi¬
nal justice system. Hear from Black
Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse
Cullors, Los Angeles poet laureate
Luis Rodriguez, the ACLU's Michele
Storms, Rainier Beach educator Jerrell
Davis, and Native American photog¬
rapher and director Wesley Roach.
Central Library, 6:30 pm, free

DEC 16

'k Anastacia-Renee, Jane Wong,
and Leena Joshi: Tender Table

Three excellent, prize-winning
local poets of color—Jane Wong,
Anastacia-Renee, and Leena Joshi,
who's also a visual artist—will read
work about food and identity.
Mount Analogue, 7 pm, $5-$20

★ Finnegan's Wake by James
Joyce: Part I, Chapter 4

I love James Joyce. I do not, how¬
ever, love his last and craziest work,
Finnegans Wake. It's a book that
really has only one reader, Joyce
himself. And he is dead. But his
book is still around. What to do with
this unreadable work, with its mixed
words, made-up words, forgotten
words, dream-dripping words? One
person, Neal Kosaly-Meyer, has
decided to commit the entire thing
to memory and then perform it from
memory. Maybe this is the only way
the novel could be saved. It's not all
that amazing to memorize some¬
thing that everyone understands;
it's very impressive to memorize
something understood by only one
person, who has been in the grave
for many years, cm
Chapel Performance Space, $5-$15

DEC 18

★ Joseph Janes

"Documents." What a boring word.
UW associate professor Joseph
Janes's new volume Documents that
Changed the Way We Live shows
documents for what they are: Far
from dry bits of paper, they are tied
to our images of ourselves and have

momentous consequences for soci¬
ety. Among the artifacts discussed:
"the 'We Can Do It!' poster, Joseph
McCarthy's 'list' of communists, the
passage on slavery deleted from the
Declaration of Independence, the
Watergate tapes," and others.
University Book Store, 7 pm, free

JAN 5-11

’k David Sedaris

The witty, self-deprecating, hilari¬
ously judgmental David Sedaris will
return to Seattle to workshop his new
manuscript, Calypso. His work will
probably be polished and beautifully
performed, with perfect timing and
absurdly funny material. Feel lucky
that he chose our town for the second
year in a row, and help him out by
being a responsive, honest audience.
Broadway Performance Hall, $50

JAN 7

Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky's the insuf¬
ferable insurance agent who end¬
lessly and hilariously infuriates Bill
Murray's character in Groundhog
Day ("Watch out for the step, it's a
dewwwwzy!"). He's also known for
roles in Glee and Memento as well
as his Public Radio International
podcast, The Tobolowsky Files. Hear
him share information about life in
the industry, as told in his book My
Adventures with God.

Stroum Jewish Community Center,
Mercer Island, 4 pm, $20-$35

JAN 8

★ Sasha Senderovich

Hear from Sasha Senderovich, trans¬
lator of the 1929 Yiddish-language
novel Judgment by David Bergelson.
This is the first time Bergelson's book,
set in a Jewish shtetl during the
Russian Revolution, has been ren¬
dered into English. Bergelson, author
of The End of Everything and Descent,
was murdered by Stalin in 1952.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

JAN 9

Ask the Oracle

Before the show, audience mem¬
bers will write down questions
about their futures, and host
Johnny Horton (in a velvet tuxedo,
or so it's rumored) will pose them
to the "writer-oracles," who will
answer by reading a random pas¬
sage from their own work.

Hotel Sorrento, 7:30 pm, free

^k Daniel Ellsberg with Daniel
Bessner

Daniel Ellsberg is a defense expert,
the man who leaked the Pentagon
Papers to the press, and the author
of The Doomsday Machine. In this
conversation with scholar and
author Daniel Bessner, Ellsberg
will speak on the existential threat
posed to civilization by our nuclear
arsenal and the Trump administra¬
tion's strategy concerning it.
University Temple United
Methodist Church, 7:30 pm, $5

Simeon Marsalis

Simeon Marsalis's novel As Lie Is
to Grin —shortlisted for the 2017
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize—
centers on a young black student
from Long Island enrolled in the
mostly white University of Vermont,
where a mysterious figure connects
him to his white-passing grand¬
mother, who attended UVM while
hiding her true identity.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

JAN 10

★ Achy Obejas, Robert Arellano,
Nelson George

Three authors from Brooklyn's
Akashic Books, which strives for
"Reverse-Gentrification of the
Literary World," to quote their
motto, will present their works.

See Achy Obejas (the author of The
Tower of the Antilles and editor of
Havana Noir), Robert Arellano (who
wrote Curse the Names, Fast Eddie,
and King of the Bees), and mystery
novelist Nelson George.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm

JAN II

★ Chloe Benjamin

Benjamin's new book is about four
teens in 1969 New York who seek
to know their fortunes from a mys¬
terious mystic and proceed to live
out their existences in accordance
with prophecy. Will they die on the
dates predicted? Or are they sub¬
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they've been given? This family epic
has garnered praise from prominent
authors Richard Russo, Karen Joy
Fowler, and Nathan Hill.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm

JAN 16

Alicia Eler

Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation,
an argument/queer memoir, ana¬
lyzes selfie-taking as a reflection on
our society and the larger culture's
view of millennials. After the read¬
ing, she'll speak with local artist
Ellie Dicola.

Hugo House First Hill, 7 pm, free

★ Sherman Alexie Loves:

Nikki Giovanni

Writer, poet, activist, and living leg¬
end Nikki Giovanni rose to promi¬
nence in the late 1960s with her
collections Black Feeling, Black Talk
and Black Judgement. Since then,
she's shaped the literary world with
her political, historical, sometimes
militant poetry, collecting numerous
accolades (including seven NAACP
Image Awards) along the way. See
her perform in person as part of the
"Sherman Alexie Loves" series.
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $35-$80

JAN 17

★ Jesmyn Ward

Ward won the National Book Award
in 2011 for Salvage the Bones, and
then she won it again this year for
her latest work, Sing, Unburied, Sing:
A Novel. On top of that, this year the
MacArthur Foundation called her
a genius and gave her a bunch of
money to keep writing more award¬
winning books. They describe her
prose as "simultaneously luminous
and achingly honest," capable of
capturing "moments of beauty, ten¬
derness, and resilience against a bleak
landscape of crushing poverty, racism,
addiction, and incarceration." rs
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $20-$80

Why We Stayed

Seattle is expensive, wracked with
construction, and increasingly
cold. So why are you still here?
Performers and community mem¬
bers are here to give their own
perspectives on why they haven't
cleared off to a city with sane rental
prices. This is a co-production of
KUOW and Theatre Off Jackson.
Theatre Off Jackson, 7:30 pm, $5

JAN 18

★ Carmen Maria Machado

Every year, without exception, the
book world agrees to like one book
and to get all buzzy about it on social
media and in the newspapers. This
year that book was Carmen Maria
Machado's debut collection of magi¬
cal realist short fiction, Her Body and
Other Parties (Graywolf Press), which
is composed of eight fables about
"women on the verge," according to
Parul Sehgal in the New York Times.
Ellie Robins at the LA Times says
the book is "an example of almost
preposterous talent that also encap¬
sulates something vital but previously
diffuse about the moment." Annalisa
Quinn at NPR says "Machado's
stories describe "familiar, unspoken
truths about being women in the
world that more straightforward or
realist writing wouldn't." Sounds
like this book is the perfect mix of
political allegory and escapist lit
for our post-Weinstein, post-Hillary
(maybe?) world, rs
Seattle Public Library, Beacon Hill
Branch, 7 pm, free

JAN 20

★ Winter Write-In with Write
Our Democracy

Writers of all kinds will gather for
this quarterly Hugo House/Write Our
Democracy event focusing on the
power of the word to fight against
cynicism and for liberty and justice.
This write-in promises readings,
prompts, and time to write with fel¬
low community members.

Hugo House First Hill, 10 am, free

JAN 22

:k Juli Berwald

The future is jelly. Specifically, our
warm, polluted, carbon-saturated
ocean is more hospitable to jel¬
lyfish than to the fish we love to
eat. Juli Berwald's book Spineless:

The Science of Jellyfish and the Art
of Growing a Backbone explains
how cnidarians' proliferation are a
warning sign that we need to treat
our oceans much better, or we'll be
snacking on peanut butter and jelly¬
fish sandwiches instead of sushi.
Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

JAN 23

★ Laurie Frankel

Seattle writer Laurie Frankel will
read from her third novel, This Is
How It Always Is, which is about the
trials, tribulations, questions, and
unbridled delights that come along
with raising a trans child.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm

Local Voices

Seattle Arts and Literature's resident
Writers in the Schools will read
works in progress. Gain insight and
inspiration from these authors.

Hotel Sorrento, 7:30 pm, free

JAN 23. FEB 13, & MARCH 6

★ Salon of Shame

Writing that makes you cringe
("middle school diaries, high school
poetry, unsent letters") is read
aloud with unapologetic hilarity
at this Salon of Shame. Every show
sells out extremely quickly, but if
you can't get tickets, show up at
7 pm on the night of the show to
get on the waitlist—cash only. The
organizers say you have a great
chance of getting in if you do so.
Theatre Off Jackson (Jan & March),
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle
Center (Feb), $15

JAN 25

★ WYNK: Ijeoma Oluo

Why can't white people say the
N-word? What do you mean by
privilege? But don't all lives matter?
What do you mean when you say
"intersectionality"? If you're seri¬
ously struggling with the answers to
those questions, then current editor-
at-large of The Establishment and
former Stranger contributor Ijeoma
Oluo's So You Want To Talk About
Race? is here for you. In the book,
Oluo employs humor and plenty
of anaphora to explain, chapter by
chapter, some basic ideas about race
that a lot of powerful people (and
powerfully loud people) don't seem
to quite understand, rs
Benaroya Hall, 7:30-9 pm, $35-$80

JAN 28-30

National Geographic Live: View
From Above

Terry Virts, onetime commander
of the International Space Station,
installed the 360-degree view mod¬
ule Cupola and took more pictures
in space than anyone up to that
point. Find out what the Earth looks
like from orbit at this event, pre¬
sented by the Seattle Symphony.
Benaroya Hall, $28-$48

FEB 2

★ A Tiny Sense of
Accomplishment

Two of the PNW's most prolific, most
accomplished, and most entertaining
writers have somehow found the
time to produce an incredibly enter¬
taining podcast for literary lovers,
not to mention an incredibly useful
podcast for writers of all sorts. During
this live taping, Alexie and Walters
will chat with novelist Tommy Orange
(whose praises Alexie has been sing¬
ing for some time now), essayist
Terese Mailhot (whose highly antici¬
pated Heart Berries is due out soon),
and Native rapper Supaman. rs
Benaroya Hall, 7:30-9:30 pm, sold out

FEB 5

Robert Gates

As part of the Unique Lives &
Experiences series, hear from former
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,
who served under Presidents Bush
and Obama.

McCaw Hall, 7:30 pm

FEB 6

•k Ross McMeekin

Ross McMeekin's The Hummingbirds
is a Hollywood-set novel with a noir
plot but an uncynical soul. A young
man who was brought up in a bird¬
worshipping cult, and now works as

a groundskeeper for an actress and
her producer husband, dreams of
becoming a bird photographer. The
actress is drawn to her employee,
but her husband's manipulative
nature renders their relationship
perilous. This is McMeekin's first
novel; he edits the excellent literary
magazine Spartan, which publishes
short and incisive "minimalist prose."
Hotel Sorrento, 7 pm, free

FEB 7

★ Gregory Orr

Much beloved and legendary poet
who I once used as an example of
bad poetry reading in an essay called
"Stop Using Poet Voice." I just want
to stress here that Orr's work is much
bigger and better and more impor¬
tant than his reading voice, and
that you really should check out The
Caged Owl (published by Copper
Canyon Press—they're local, guys!) if
you're looking for a lesson on how
to turn your trauma into poems
without discrediting either, rs
McCaw Hall, 7:30 pm, $20-$80

FEB 8

★ Terese Marie Mailhot

First Nations journalist and essayist
Terese Marie Mailhot is out with her
debut memoir, Heart Berries, which
is about growing up on the Seabird
Island Indian Reservation in British
Columbia. The coming-of-age story
follows Mailhot from her "pro¬
foundly dysfunctional upbringing" to
her struggle with PTSD and bipolar
disorder, and ultimately to the writ¬
ing life she's cultivated in response
to all that. Sherman Alexie regularly
champions her work in radio inter¬
views and in conversations, so she's
got his stamp of approval. I imagine
she'll have many others when this
one hits the shelves, rs
Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

FEB 8-10

Cupid Ain't @#%!

J Mase III plus queer/trans cohorts
of color are showcasing Valentine's
Day angst in the form of edgy
poetry—"funny, sad and just a wee
bit arousing."

Gay City

FEB 12

★ Box Brown

Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist Box
Brown ( Andre the Giant) will read
from Is This Guy For Real?, a new
biographical graphic novel about
the incendiary comic Andy Kaufman,
known for his occasionally shocking
performance-art style of stand-up.
Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

FEB 15

•k Colson Whitehead

About novelist and MacArthur
genius Colson Whitehead, Rich
Smith wrote, "He won every major
award in fiction this year for The
Underground Railroad, which really
was that good." In his review, Smith
said the new novel was "even bet¬
ter than the hype." The Pulitzer
Prize committee would agree with
that assessment of the novel, which
blends realistic historical atrocity and
sci-fi premises to explore a woman's
drive to escape slavery.

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $20-$80

FEB 16

★ Dave Eggers and Mokhtar
Alkhanshali

Dave Eggers, founder of
McSweeney's, turns to nonfic¬
tion to tell the story of Mokhtar
Alkhanshali, a son of Yemeni
immigrants who travels back to the
land of his origin to discover cof¬
fee farms. Civil war breaks out in
the middle of his trip, leaving him
stranded. A tale of adventure and
coffee nerdery, The Monk of Mokha
and its real-life protagonist are sure
to charm and inspire. Presented by
Elliott Bay Book Company.

TBA

FEB 17

★ Xandria Phillips

In the 2016 Seattle Review
Chapbook Contest, Xandria Phillips's
Reasons for Smoking was chosen
by Claudia Rankine as the winner.
Phillips, an Ohio native, has received

42 SEATTLE ART AND PERFORMANCE

Why you should see him:

Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow¬
ships and previously published
work in Beloit Poetry Journal, West
Branch, Nashville Review, and more.
Quenton Baker and Sarah Maria
Medina will help fete the release of
her chapbook with readings.

Open Books, 7-8:30 pm, free

ability to insert herself into
her novel and in so doing
transform the personal into
the universal.

Washington Hall, 7-9 pm,
$15

FEB 24

His novel The Underground Railroad
has won every prize available, and it
was a favorite of President Obama's.

When/Where: February 15 at
Benaroya Hall.

FEB 18

★ Fran Lebowitz

Humorist Fran Lebowitz stands at
a remove from popular culture,
much of which she lambastes with
sarcastic wit. She's also something
of a grump. In a 1993 interview in
the Paris Review, she groused, "I
wouldn't say that I dislike the young.
I'm simply not a fan of naivete. I
mean, unless you have an erotic
interest in them, what other interest
could you have?" But she's also an
incisive observer and a concentration
of New York bluntness in human
skin, and she'll be worth seeing.
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $35-$56

FEB 22

★ Erik Larson in Conversation
with Neal Bascomb

Erik Larson's books have taken a
vivid approach to historic events
like the sinking of the Lusitania
(Dead Wake), the killings of the
World's Fair murderer H.H. Holmes
(The Devil in the White City), and
the rise of Hitler through the eyes
of an American family in Berlin (In
the Garden of Beasts). His narrative
nonfiction has netted him an Edgar
Award and landed on bestseller
lists, and he'll discuss the art with
Neal Bascomb, New York Times-
bestselling author of The Winter
Fortress, about the sabotage of the
German atomic bomb program.
Washington Hall, 7 pm, $25/$40

Norman Finkelstein

Norman G. Finkelstein taught at
NYU and DePaul but was denied
tenure after a bitter quarrel with
Alan Dershowitz, whom he accused
of plagiarism. His pro-Palestinian
views also got him banned from
Israel for 10 years. He remains highly
controversial for works such as The
Holocaust Industry: Reflections on
the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.
His latest book is Gaza: an Inquest
into Its Martyrdom.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

★ African American
Writer's Alliance Annual Group
Reading

This group reading is presented by
the NW African American Alliance, a
local group of writers.

Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, free

Search for Meaning Festival

Want a better world? Don't we all.
Hear from scholars, fiction writers,
and poets at this annual community
festival on how we can contribute.
Seattle University

FEB 25-27

Between River and Rim: Hiking
the Grand Canyon

The team of writer Kevin Fedarko
and photographer Pete McBridge will
share their story of hiking the entire
Grand Canyon in sections—without
trails. Learn about their experiences
and their discovery of threats to the
natural wonder's future.

Benaroya Hall

FEB 27

Brittney Cooper

Rutgers University professor and
Crunk Feminist Collective blog co¬
founder Brittney Cooper has been
making the talk show rounds and
contributed her feminist insights to
Al Jazeera's Third Rail, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the
Root, and others. She'll talk about
her new book Eloquent Rage: A Black
Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.
Northwest African American
Museum

FEB 28

★ Steve Almond: A Night of
Bad Stories: Straight Talk for
the Politically Heartbroken

Steve Almond's Bad Stories: Toward
a Unified Theory of How It All
Came Apart draws on great authors
like Baldwin, Orwell, Melville, and
Vonnegut to wrestle some sense out
of the last presidential election.

Hotel Sorrento, 7 pm, free

MARCH 10-13

National Geographic Live:

A Wild Life

Young Bertie Gregory (Scientific
Exploration Society Zenith Explorer
of the year in 2015) takes photos of
wild and urban animal photography,
revealing the bond between humans
and animals in cities around the
world. See his work at this show, pre¬
sented by the Seattle Symphony.
Benaroya Hall, $28-$48

MARCH 15-16

★ Historically Speaking

Local performers like songwriter
Angie Louise, dancer and theater
artist Markeith Wiley, poet Quenton
Baker, actor Eric Ray Anderson, and
actor/playwright Brian Neel will be
inspired by historical events in Seattle.
Rendezvous, 7:30 pm, $25

EVERY SECOND MONDAY

★ African-American Writers'
Alliance Poetry Reading

Hear poets from the Northwest's
African American community in
a reading organized by the NW
African American Writers' Alliance,
which promotes emerging and
seasoned writers and publishes
anthologies.

Third Place Books Seward Park,

7 pm, free

EVERY LAST TUESDAY

★ Literary Happy Hour

Capitol Cider invites poets and
authors to read their work to a
happy hour audience.

Capitol Cider, 5-7 pm, free

★ Loud Mouth Lit

The writer Paul Mullin, winner of a
Stranger Genius Award, curates a
"fresh, local, organically sourced"
monthly literary event called Loud
Mouth Lit dedicated to "the amaz¬
ing writers living in Seattle."

St. Andrews Bar and Grill, 8 pm, free

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY

FEB 22-25

★ Imani Sims

Local queer poet Imani Sims pres¬
ents Yes, Ms. White Lady, "an
exploration of Black Femme/Non-
Binary Identities through the liter¬
ary and performing arts as a way to
resist micro aggressive behaviors."
Gay City

FEB 23

★ Word Works: Ruth Ozeki

Former Stranger staffer Paul
Constant once wrote, "In her novel
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth
Ozeki performed some next-level
Being John Malkovich-sty\e narra¬
tive judo flips. There are so many
threads in the book—a journal writ¬
ten by a bullied Japanese teenager,
the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a
novelist named Ruth who eerily
resembles Ozeki—that a lesser novel¬
ist would have turned in a tangled
mess of knotted twine. But Ozeki
demonstrates the metafictional gift
of a Vonnegut or a Kundera, the

MARCH 4

★ Anderson Cooper

As part of the "Unique Lives &
Experiences" series, CNN news host
Anderson Cooper will share his
perspectives.

McCaw Hall, 7:30 pm

★ Tyehimba Jess

He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for
poetry and boy, did he deserve it.
Stranger Genius Nominees Wave
Books (they're also local, guys!)
published his winning book, Olio,
which explores, embodies, and
thinks through the early origins
of black music in America. If you
have not checked out this book,
you must. Jess is doing shit with the
page that I have never seen before
in my life—writing poems you have
to rip out of the book and roll into
a tube in order to read, writing
mirroring ghazals that actually read
forwards and backwards, just to
name a few. rs

McCaw Hall, 7:30 pm, $20-$80

★ Silent Reading Party

Invented by our own Christopher
Frizzelle, the reading party is every
first Wednesday of the month at 6
p.m. That's when the Fireside Room
at the Sorrento Hotel goes quiet and
fills with people with books tucked
under their arms. (And, occasionally,
a Kindle or two.) By 7 pm, you often
can't get a seat. And there's always
free music from 6 to 8 pm.

Hotel Sorrento, 6 pm, free

EVERY FIRST THURSDAY &

THIRD FRIDAY

★ Seattle StorySLAM

A live amateur storytelling competi¬
tion in which audience members
who put their names in a hat are
randomly chosen to tell stories on
a theme. Local comedians tend to
show up, but lots of nonperformers
get in on the action as well. First
Thursday readings take place at the
Fremont Abbey, followed by third
Friday events at St. Mark's Cathedral.
Various locations, 8 pm, $10

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By Joule Zelman and
Charles Mudede

DEC 6

All the Colors of the Dark

This 1972 film by Sergio Martino has
all the distinguishing characteristics
of a good giallo (Italian horror) film:
jarring psychedelia, gothic settings,
imperiled beauties, and devil wor¬
ship. A woman survives a car accident
only to find herself chased by disturb¬
ing visions of knife-wielding stalkers.
Her hot neighbor, Mary, suggests
the perfect solution: Participate in a
Black Mass to cure her paranoia. That
doesn't go exactly as planned.
Northwest Film Forum

k Far Out Films:

'The NeverEnding Story'

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Air
Force One) and featuring a dreamy
soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder (the
man who discovered the sexiest
voice in the history of popular music,
Donna Summer), The NeverEnding
Story is a fantasy film about the
thing that makes nonsense out of
all our hopes, joys, moments in the
sun, and pleasures of the senses.

That thing is the Great No-thing. In
the film, it is a vacuum that hungers
to make more and more things into
what it is: no-thing. How can we
stop it? The heroes in the film even¬
tually find a way. But in real life,
there is no way to stop the Great
No-thing. It will consume us and
everything we know and love, cm
SIFF Cinema Uptown

DEC 6-7

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Embark on a high documentary
adventure with films about moun¬
tain-climbing, kayaking, and more.
Benaroya Hall

Visiting Artist Nathaniel Dorsky:
Seasonal Songs

Abstract experimental filmmaker
Nathaniel Dorsky makes short, often
silent films rich in nature imagery.
He'll visit the Forum to present
Seasonal Songs, a body of work from
2013-2017, and be introduced by film
scholar Johanna Gosse.

Northwest Film Forum

DEC 6-MARCH 14

★ French Truly Salon

In this SIFF series, French movies are
presented along with French treats
and talks about French culture. This
winter's lineup includes Francois
Ozon's 8 Women (Dec 6), Andre
Techine's Being 17 (Jan 17), Patrice
Leconte's Love Street (Feb 14), and
Paul Lacoste's Step Up to the Plate
(March 14).

SIFF Film Center

DEC 7

★ Food Justice Film Fest

Enjoy snacks and watch short films on
sustainability and farming.

Langston Hughes Performing Arts
Institute

k Here Comes the Night Film
Noir Series: Chinatown

As Charles Mudede says, "If you love
cinema, then you must love film
noir"—a category he describes as full
of "spiderlike women, lots of long
knives, lots of rooms with dark cur¬
tains, lots of faces of the fallen, and
lots of existential twists and turns."
The final film in this series is Roman
Polanski's nihilistic Chinatown.

Seattle Art Museum

'k The Missing Picture

Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture, a
2014 Oscar nominee and Cannes Un
Certain Regard winner, re-creates
a Cambodian childhood after the
Khmer Rouge regime has wiped
out all records of the era other than
propaganda. Clay figurines and
elaborate dioramas stand in for the
truth behind the archival footage.
The Henry will host a Q&A with the
director after the screening.

Henry Art Gallery

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Why you should see it: Is

that really a question?

When/Where: December 14 in
theaters everywhere.

DEC 7, JAN 12-16

★ Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick's farce on a thermo¬
nuclear war is bleak, funny, timely,
and totally full of Peter Sellers.

Living Computers Museum (Dec 7);
Central Cinema (Jan 12-16)

OPENING DEC 8

Just Getting Started

This old-guy buddy comedy about
two golf rivals who happen to be an
FBI agent and a beneficiary of the
witness protection program has at
least two great assets, namely Tommy
Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman.

Wide Release

Wonder Wheel

Jim Belushi stars as a Coney Island
carousel operator whose estranged
daughter, a mob wife (Juno Temple),
comes back to town after a hit is put
out on her. Kate Winslet co-stars in
Woody Allen's 1950s-set feature.

Wide Release

DEC 8,9 & 13

Christmas Evil

This cult film is introduced by an
impressive blurb from John Waters,
who calls it "the best seasonal film of
all time." If you share tastes with the
director of Pink Flamingos, enjoy this
tale of a Christmas-obsessed serial
killer who dresses like Santa.

Central Cinema

DEC 8-10

Home Alone

This film claims the dubious honor
of being the mainstream Christmas
favorite with the most acts of torture
per minute.

SIFF Film Center

k Snowpiercer

And so, we learn the truth. The poor
people on this post-apocalypse train
that's circling a world frozen by
anthropogenic climate change learn
that the rich people in the first class
cars eat things like sushi while they
eat... cockroaches. When a leader
of the rebellion against the rich
sees this fact with his own eyes, sees
cockroaches in a huge pot being
turned into "tasty" protein bars,
he almost throws up. This is just
too much. This must end. This is my
least favorite scene in an otherwise
incredible movie by the great South
Korean director Joon-ho Bong. We
will eat and enjoy insects in the
future. Believe that, cm
SIFF Film Center

DEC 8-17

★ Die Hard

A year after Fox Plaza, a 35-story
tower in Century City, Los Angeles,
was completed (1987), it starred
in a film that brought it and Bruce
Willis fame, Die Hard. Fox Plaza

plays Nakatomi Plaza, a build¬
ing owned by a Japanese
corporation, and Bruce Willis
plays John McClane, a white
NYC cop whose estranged
white wife not only lives in
LA but appears to have gone to the
other side, the Japanese side. While
McClane visits his wife at Nakatomi
Plaza, things go crazy and we enter
the world inside of the building:
its elevator shafts, air ducts, and
structural spaces. Here, postmod¬
ern architecture meets Reagan-era
Hollywood cinema and makes lots of
movie magic, cm

Central Cinema (Dec 8-12); SIFF Film
Center (Dec 15-17)

k Scrooged

In the late-'80s retelling of A
Christmas Carol directed by Richard
Donner (The Goonies), Bill Murray
shines with the metallic luster of a
piece of magnetite as bitter-and-
angry-for-no-particular-reason CEO
Frank Cross.

Central Cinema (Dec 8-11); SIFF Film
Center (Dec 15-17)

DEC 8-28

★ It's a Wonderful Life

Shortly after It's a Wonderful Life's
1946 release, James Agee, one of
the few American film critics of that
era still worth reading , noted the
film's grueling aspect. "Often," he
wrote, "in its pile-driving emotional
exuberance, it outrages, insults, or at
least accosts without introduction,
the cooler and more responsible
parts of the mind." These aesthetic
cautions are followed, however, by
a telling addendum: "It is neverthe¬
less recommended," Agee allowed,
"and will be reviewed at length as
soon as the paralyzing joys of the
season permit." Paralyzing joys are
the very heart of George Bailey's
dilemma; they are, to borrow
words from George's father, "deep
in the race." The sacrifices George
makes for being "the richest man
in town" resonate bitterly even as
they lead to the finale's effusive
payoff. Those sacrifices are what
make It's a Wonderful Life, in all its
"Capraesque" glory, endure, sn
Grand Illusion

DEC 9-10

★ Irma Vep

This is a new restoration of Olivier
Assayas's beguiling, meta, mysteri¬
ous film about filmmaking. It stars
Maggie Cheung as herself, cast in
the role of Irma Vep for a remake
of a famous silent film in France.
Isolated and tokenized in a culture
she doesn't know, Maggie seems to
represent the vitality that too often
eludes works of art in the contem¬
porary movie industry.

Northwest Film Forum

'k Le Gai Savoir

Jean-Luc Godard's experimental
1969 film interrogates language and
learning through the conversation of
two revolutionary activists. You will
either find it earth-shaking or utterly
insufferable.

Northwest Film Forum

DEC 12

Potamkin

No, we didn't misspell the Russian
silent classic. Potamkin is Stephen
Broomer's 2017 cine-collage biog¬
raphy of the film critic Harry Alan
Potamkin (1900-1933), who died of
malnutrition-related causes despite
his respected status in his field.

Using "distorted fragments" of
films that Potamkin wrote about,
Broomer creates an interior portrait
of the intellectual.

Grand Illusion

DEC 13

★ An Evening with Auntie Mame

While in the middle of my college
years, I received from my roommate
David something of an education
in what I can only describe as gay
cinema. It's not that the films I was
shown had gay people in them, but
that they were held in high regard
by a class of gay men. The very best
of these films was Auntie Mame.

I fell in love with its star, Rosalind
Russell, almost at the exact moment
she appeared on the screen. And
David, my gay guide through this
1958 classic, had lots of information
about her, her performance, and
how this brilliant piece affected her
life and society. To this day, I still
regard Auntie Mame as one of the
highest of achievements of that very
American decade, cm
Pacific Place

Perfume of the Lady in Black

Another bizarro entry in the
NWFF's "Terrore Giallo! Italian
Thrillers as Anti-Kyriarchal Dream
Agents" series, this film is about an
industrial chemist tortured by hal¬
lucinations of a woman in black, a
freaky little girl, and various sinister
strangers. Is the young scientist
having flashbacks to her traumatic
childhood? Or are her friends all
secretly murderous Satanists?
Northwest Film Forum

DEC 14

★ Bob & Carol & Ted 8c Alice

This satirical sex comedy from 1969
(tee hee) mocks free love and new-
age psychology in a tale of two
couples, one free-spirited and one
prim, who decide to try their hand(s)
at group sex. Among the assets of this
film by Paul Mazursky: a performance
by Natalie Wood and an original score
by Seattle's own Quincy Jones.

Grand Illusion

OPENING DEC 14

★ The Shape of Water

Sally Hawkins plays a mute cleaner
in a government facility who
stumbles on an imprisoned aquatic
creature in the lab. A friendship
grows between the "monster" and
the woman, but both find them¬
selves endangered by the ambitions
of a heartless FBI agent (Michael
Shannon), who sees only the swamp
monster's potential as a weapon. If
director Guillermo del Toro keeps
up his streak of delivering enchant¬
ing fantasies with anti-authoritar¬

ian themes, we expect great things.
Wide Release

k Star Wars: The Last Jedi

And now it is a fact of American
life that we must return to the
theaters to watch, during holiday
season, a story from a galaxy that's
faraway in a time long ago. This
time, Luke Skywalker fully returns
to the screen. He has aged a lot. But
this makes sense. Because though
Skywalker is in another galaxy, he
is in the same universe. This means
that the second law of thermody¬
namics apply to him as they apply
to say, Donald Trump. Skywalker
must age because everything in the
universe is structured to move from
a high or concentrated grade of
energy to a low and disperse one.
The heat-death of the universe is
inevitable, even in Star Wars, cm
Wide Release

DEC 14-17

k On the Beach at Night Alone

The great Korean director Hong
Sangsoo revisits his favorite themes
in the tale of a young woman
thrown off balance by an affair
with a married film director. Kim
Minhee won the Silver Bear for her
role as the devastated actor, and
both she and Hong seem to draw
on their real-life relationship.
Northwest Film Forum

DEC 15-17

Porto

Anton Yelchin, who left us too
soon, had his last starring role as a
young man who relives a beautiful
night with a stranger (Lucie Lucas)
in the city of Porto.

Northwest Film Forum

DEC 15-19

Elf

In which Will Ferrell plays a grown
man who has spent his entire life
laboring under the delusion that
he's one of Santa's elves. The side
effects of this include a deeply
ingrained sense of whimsy and a
proclivity for concentrated sugars.
Zooey Deschanel sings.

Central Cinema

Love Actually

In 2003, Stranger critic Jennifer
Maerz wrote, "'Trite' doesn't
begin to describe Love Actually, a
movie that America will probably
gobble up like grease in a bucket
of gravy because it's about love
and Christmas, and who doesn't
like love at Christmas? And really,
who doesn't love Hugh Grant?" If
you don't like Hugh Grant, or love,
you may enjoy the "Hecklevision"
screening on December 19.

Central Cinema

DEC 20

★ Deep Red

Two years before collaborating on
Suspiria, Dario Argento directed
and Goblin scored this horror film
about a hatchet-toting murderer
with uncanny powers.

Northwest Film Forum

OPENING DEC 20

The Greatest Showman on Earth

Hugh Jackman stars as the notori¬
ous circus showman P.T. Barnum,
with support by Michelle Williams,
Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya.
Various locations

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

A magical antique console whisks
four teens into the Jumanji video
game to fight monsters. Also,
they're transported into the bod¬
ies of Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black,
Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan.

Wide Release

DEC 21

k Beggars of Life

Silent-film fans primarily know
Louise Brooks for the film Pandora's
Box, in which she plays a guileless
siren whom men can't resist ruining
themselves for. In William Wellman's
Beggars of Life (1928), incidentally
Paramount's first movie with sound-
dialogue, she plays a girl who kills
her gross stepfather, disguises her¬
self as a boy, and rides the rails with
other down-and-outs.

Northwest Film Forum

John Waters's Female Trouble

Pink Flamingos star Divine plays a
runaway schoolgirl who gets preg¬
nant and turns to a life of depravity.
"Crime enhances one's beauty. The
worse crime gets, the more ravish¬
ing one becomes." Another outra¬
geous exploitation flick from the
lewd gentleman John Waters.

Ark Lodge

DEC 21-24

★ Rare Exports:

A Christmas Tale

Expanding on a series of internet
shorts, Finnish director Jalmari
Helander strikes a fine balance
between creepy and darkly comic,
delivering a sharply askew Home
Alone riff goosed by brief bits of
more traditional horror splatter.
While the pace does occasionally
falter, even at 80 minutes, Rare
Exports is ultimately a spooky,
funny, weirdly heartwarming fable.

ANDREW WRIGHT

SIFF Film Center

White Christmas Sing-Along

This interactive screening of Irving
Berlin's musical, starring Bing
Crosby and Danny Kaye, lets you
join in the corny on-screen fun with
a pre-movie sing-along and free
jingle bells.

SIFF Film Center

OPENING DEC 22

All the Money in the World

In Ridley Scott's new drama, based
on a true tale, Michelle Williams
plays Gail Harris, the desperate
mother of the kidnapped teenager
John Paul Getty III, as she tries to
convince the boy's grandfather to
pay a massive ransom. Christopher
Plummer plays the cold-hearted bil¬
lionaire, a role originally destined
for Kevin Spacey.

Wide Release

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JANUARY 23 - 24

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support of new release El Viaje

DAVINA & THE VAGABONDS

JANUARY 30 - 31

“Her voice is a complex, expressive, flexible
instrument made of sugar and grit."

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THE JAZZ EPISTLES featuring
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FEBRUARY 16 - 17

A a concert to tell the story of The Jazz
Epistles, arguably the most important jazz
album ever recorded in South Africa’s history.

DR. LONNIE SMITH

FEBRUARY 27-28

An unparalleled musician, composer,
performer, recording artist and master guru
of the Hammond B3 organ.

VERONICA SWIFT with
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MARCH 6 - 7

23-year-old jazz, bebop and traditional swing
vocalist joins one of the world’s foremost hard
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MARCH 8 - 11

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★ Call Me By Your Name

This new drama by Luca
Guadagnino (I Am Love) uses
a James Ivory screenplay about
an American teenager living in
Italy, Elio, who falls in love with
Oliver, the graduate assistant
who's come to live with his pro¬
fessor father. A tale of first love
and lust in golden Lombardy
light, this film promises an
affecting and brainy exploration
of growing up.

Various locations

★ Darkest Hour

Six months after Christopher
Nolan released Dunkirk, a movie
about British soldiers fleeing
Europe and reaching the safety
of home, another British direc¬
tor, Joe Wright, is releasing
Darkest Hour. This movie looks
at the Dunkirk disaster from the
perspective of Winston Churchill,
who came into power a few days
before the evacuation started.
Gary Oldman plays the cigar¬
smoking, hard-drinking bulldog
of a prime minister. But Darkest
Hour is very talky, whereas
Dunkirk has very little dialogue.
This fact alone makes the latter
better than the former. But you
will not appreciate the former
without seeing the latter. These
films capture the mood of UK
Brexit times, cm
Wide Release

★ Downsizing

An occupational therapist (Matt
Damon) and his wife (Kristen
Wiig) fight global warming and
shrinking resources by shrink¬
ing down to four inches tall in
Alexander Payne's new absurdist
comedy, in a rather different
vein from his acclaimed works
The Descendants and Sideways.
Wide Release

Father Figures

Owen Wilson and Ed Helms play
fraternal twins shocked to learn
that their mother's husband is
not their father. They embark
on a journey to find their real
dad among several highly unap¬
pealing possibilities, from J.K.
Simmons to Christopher Walken.
Wide Release

Pitch Perfect 3

Another entry in the fun series
about cutthroat competition and
female comradeship among a cap-
pella singers arrives on the screen.
Wide Release

The Post

Steven Spielberg directs this
historical drama about the first
female newspaper publisher,
the Washington Post's Katharine
Graham (played by Meryl Streep,
of course), and her coverage of
the Watergate scandal.

Wide Release

DEC 25

Fiddler on the Roof
Sing-Along

Join SIFF's holiday
"Traditionnnnn tradition!" of
belting along with Tevye and
family in Norman Jewison's
1971 adaptation of the beloved
musical. Your ticket will include
Chinese takeout from Leah's
Gourmet Kosher Food and
pre-film klezmer by Orkestyr
Farfeleh.

SIFF Cinema Uptown

OPENING DEC 25

Molly's Game

Aaron Sorkin writes and directs
this from-life drama about an
Olympic skier, Molly Bloom
(Jessica Chastain), who runs an
ultra-high-stakes gambling ring
for politicians, movie stars, and
tycoons. When she's caught by
the feds, her initially skeptical
defense lawyer (Idris Elba) takes
on the case.

Wide Release

Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis and his Protean
face reteam with Paul Thomas
Anderson for a drama set in
refined British society in the
1950s. Day-Lewis is an aging
couturier and inveterate bach¬
elor who falls in love with Alma

(Vicky Krieps), a young woman
who excites him and inspires his
work. But she has something
that unnerves him: a will of
her own. This is said to be Day-
Lewis's final film.

Wide Release

DEC 26-30

★ Princess Mononoke

As anyone who's seen a Hayao
Miyazaki film will attest, the
story you follow is secondary to
the sights you behold. The craggy
reality of his twisting tree trunks
capped with windblown tufts
of leaves; the weighty presence
of the rocks, whether rough
or slicked smooth by water;
the breathtaking vividness of
light when the clouds part; the
crouched expectancy of animals
at rest—all of these are rendered
as gorgeously as any animation
I've ever seen, and in fact make
a better plea for ecological san¬
ity than the sometimes heavy-
handed Script. BRUCE REID
Central Cinema

DEC 28

Rocky Horror Picture Show:
Holiday Edition

How does a new generation
of fighters for trans rights
inherit Dr. Frank N. Furter of
Transsexual, Transylvania (played
by Tim Curry), in this campy 1975
horror musical? This edition
offers a live shadowcast by the
Vicarious Theatre Company.
Central Cinema

DEC 31

Moulin Rouge! New Year's
Eve Party Sing Along

Once again, it's time to close out
the old year with tunes, Nicole
Kidman, Ewan McGregor, and
Baz Luhrmann.

SIFF Cinema Uptown

DEC 31, JAN 25 & 31

★ The Room

Lindy West once wrote this for
The Stranger: "The Room (a cra-
zybrains 2003 vanity project from
the waxy and mysterious and
slightly French Tommy Wiseau,
now known as 'the Citizen
Kane of bad movies') is a Rocky
Horror- style interactive experi¬
ence. Do you like sexual and
slightly French man-groans? Do
you like playing football in a
very small room with a leering
man-child? Do you like the line
'I gotta go see Michelle in a little
bit, to make out with her'? Go
see The Room."

Central Cinema

JAN 2

Hecklevision: Bad Boys II

Text your witty put-downs to
the screen at this showing of
Bad Boys II, in which Martin
Lawrence and Will Smith play
two rampaging narcotics cops
in Miami.

Central Cinema

OPENING JAN 5

I, Tonya

Craig Gillespie's semi-mockumen-
tary-style I, Tonya stars Margot
Robbie as the infamous Olympic
skater Tonya Harding in a tale of
ambition, abuse, and all-Ameri¬
can schadenfreude.

SIFF Cinema Uptown

JAN 5-8

★ Labyrinth

The film that introduced the
public to the yet-to-be-fully-
dismissed theory that David
Bowie was, in fact, a Jim Henson
creation. RIP, both of you. The
screening on Bowie's birthday,
January 8, will include a sing-
along and costume contest.
Central Cinema

JAN 5-9

'k Deadpool

The more-fun-than-most-
superhero-movies flick about a
sarcastic cancer patient (Ryan
Reynolds) whose experimental
treatment turns him into a
fast-healing dynamo. Come

on January 9 for a hecklevision
screening.

Central Cinema

JAN 10-14

Aida's Secrets

In this personal investigative
documentary, a man born in the
Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp and adopted by Israelis
searches for his birth mother's
story, his father's identity, and a
brother he never met.

Northwest Film Forum

JAN II

★ Puget Soundtrack:
Postcard from the Badlands
presents Moon

Duncan Jones's heady, fatalistic
sci-fi film about a lonely lunar
miner nearing the end of his
shift and the mysterious illness
that overtakes him will get a live
soundtrack by Postcard from the
Badlands.

Northwest Film Forum

JAN 11-14

★ Nordic Lights Film Festival

The Nordic Heritage Museum
will take you on a cinematic
tour of Scandinavia with films
from Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway, Sweden, and even the
Faroe Islands.

SIFF Film Center & SIFF Cinema
Uptown

JAN ll-MARCH 8

★ Winter Light: The Films of
Ingmar Bergman

I know. It's Ingmar Bergman. I
know, most of his films are very
slow. I know, you want to see
lots of action and explosions and
all of that sort of thing. I know,

I know, I know. But you must
still watch Bergman's films. Look
at it this way: A film like The
Commuter, which must not be
missed, is your fat-rich steak, and
a movie like Bergman's Through
the Glass Darkly or Silence or
Persona is your broccoli. You just
can't eat steak all of the time. You
will die from just eating steak.

You need your veggies. You can
almost live forever on a diet of
just films of the great Swedish
director Ingmar Bergman, cm
Seattle Art Museum

OPENING JAN 12

★ The Commuter

One of the most productive and
entertaining collaborations in
Hollywood today is that between
Spanish director Jaume Collet-
Serra and the Irish actor Liam
Neeson. They have made three
excellent action thrillers. They
are about to release a fourth,

The Commuter, which in tone
and setting is much like the duo's
masterpiece—their second col¬
laboration, Non-Stop. This film
also stars the underappreciated
actress Vera Farmiga. She plays a
baddie. She brings bad news to
Liam, who is 65 and not getting
younger. Liam must get out of
yet another tough situation. He
is on a commuter train, the love
his life (his wife) seems to have
been kidnapped, he must do
something he doesn't want to do
or lose everything. This is what
we call a movie, my man.

A bloody fucking movie, cm
Wide Release

JAN 12-14

D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage

Sex Pistols fans must see this
wild rock doc about the group's
final tour in America, in 1978,
which features concert footage
of X-Ray Spex, Generation X
with Billy Idol, Sham 69, and the
Dead Boys.

Northwest Film Forum

JAN 12-16

★ Invasion of the Body
Snatchers

The miasmically disturb¬
ing Invasion of the Body
Snatchers (the version with
Donald Sutherland and Evil
Mr. Spock) is about human-
mimicking aliens taking over
hippie San Francisco. Catch an
extraordinarily baby-faced Jeff
Goldblum as an impoverished,
snarky writer caught up in the
invasion.

Central Cinema

JAN 12 & MARCH 15

ECA Film Cabaret

The Film Cabaret pairs a live
happy-hour performance with
a classic or contemporary film.
On January 12, revisit the Coen
Brothers' picaresque starring
George Clooney, preceded by a
Warren G. Hardings mini-con-
cert. On March 15, Buena Vista
Social Club, Wim Wenders's
documentary on older Cuban
musicians neglected by the pub¬
lic in the Castro years, will be
preceded by a cabaret perfor¬
mance by Alma y Azucar.
Edmonds Center for the Arts

JAN 13-14

The Future Perfect

In Nele Wohlatz's hybrid fiction¬
documentary, a 17-year-old
Chinese girl in Argentina takes
refuge from culture shock in a
romance with an Indian boy in
her language class.

Northwest Film Forum

JAN 17-21

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr
Story

Like so many Hollywood starlets,
the Austrian-born Hedy Lamarr
was essentially famous for her
beauty (and perhaps for simulat¬
ing the first screen orgasm in a
Czech silent movie). But now her
legacy as a scientist and heroic
anti-Nazi is being reassessed.
Maybe she ought to be a little
more famous for those? This
documentary presents the bril¬
liant woman in her own words
from archival recordings.
Northwest Film Forum

JAN 19

★ The Paris Opera

This documentary by Jean-
Stephane Bron, a Swiss director,
has the pace, the editing, the
appearance, and the mood of a
big-production drama. A young
man from the Russian sticks audi¬
tions and, to his surprise, is hired
by the opera. He hardly speaks
any French, and now he is at the
center of this civilization and
this institution (which has a view
of the Eiffel Tower, the business
district, the gray and black roof¬
tops of the great old metropolis).
There are certain sequences in
this doc that will lift your spirits
up to the highest states of feel¬
ing that this art can reach, cm
SIFF Film Center

JAN 19-24

Dreamgirls

Now, I realize that Oprah reached
down from her golden throne
and touched you in your special
area while whispering sweet
nothings about Dreamgirls. I
realize that Beyonce's fake hair
is really, really pretty. I realize
that Jennifer Hudson was kind
of a superchunk, but you kind of
don't mind looking at her, and
that kind of makes you feel good
about yourself. But it's time for
YOU to realize that this movie is
not good. This movie is nothing
but problems. And fat people
don't need your pity, lindy west
Central Cinema

'k Run Lola Run

A young Berlin hipster named
Lola has 20 minutes to find
enough money to stop her
boyfriend from being killed.
German filmmaker Tom Tykwer
tells the story three times, each
with different but equally
incredible twists, surprises, tan¬
gents, and endings—which is
exactly what makes this movie
fun to watch, cm
Central Cinema

JAN 25-FEBIO

★ Children's Film Festival

The Children's Film Festival prom¬
ises a wide variety of shorts plus
a selection of full-length feature
films appropriate for kids. The
children might walk out of the
theater feeling they've had a
pleasant and cheery experience,
or it might spark an intellectual
curiosity that lasts them all year.
Northwest Film Forum

JAN 26-30

★ Coraline

When this film first came
out, then-Stranger critic Paul

Constant wrote, "Filmmaker
Henry Selick has one-upped his
previous film The Nightmare
Before Christmas by riddling
Coraline with sweeping 3-D
set pieces that appear to fill
the whole theater and flights
of fancy that demand repeat
viewings. This isn't a film for
small children, but it's gorgeous
and well plotted and genuinely
affecting. I haven't seen a
mainstream Hollywood film this
sumptuous and—goddamn it—
magical in a good long time."
Central Cinema

FEB 7-11

Infinity Baby

This deadpan, satirical comedy
by Bob Byington has a couple
of A-listers—including wife-hus¬
band duo Megan Mullally and
Nick Offerman, Kieran Culkin,
and Martin Starr (of Silicon
Valley) —but they can't save the
film from its thin conceit. In the
future, thanks to a bad compro¬
mise between Republicans and
Democrats involving abortion
being banned and stem-cell
research being allowed, some
babies have been bred that don't
age, don't cry, and barely poop
(if you give them the right meds).
People, naturally, buy the babies,
because they are convenient, for
$20,000. TRICIA ROMANO
Northwest Film Forum

FEB 9-15

:k Big Sonia

Big Sonia is a tiny 91-year-
old Jewish tailor who's spent
decades speaking in schools and
prisons of her life during the
Holocaust. This well-received
documentary—given awards by
the AARP and the Napa Valley
Film Festival—follows Sonia as
she struggles to resign herself to
retirement.

SIFF Film Center

FEB 16-17

★ Everett Film Festival

When it was created in 1997, the
Everett Women's Film Festival
was dedicated to "highlighting
the strength, humor, and cre¬
ativity of women through pro¬
vocative and entertaining films."
Over the years, the festival has
expanded its vision by presenting
films not only made by women,
but also those that shed light on
the lives of women from various
cultures, times, and experiences.
Everett Performing Arts Center

FEB 16-22

★ Noir City 2018

Your yearly rendezvous with
wicked women, doomed patsies,
brutal criminals, and cynical
detectives, all playing out in
alluring chiaroscuro.

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

FEB 22-25

:k Seattle Asian American
Film Festival

The SAAFF will screen fictional
and documentary stories of Asian
American journeys, families, artis¬
tic innovations, and more, plus
music videos and shorts.
Northwest Film Forum

MARCH 9-15

★ Animation Show of
Shows

Celebrate the art of animation
at the 18th Annual Animation
Show of Shows, a six-day-long
event that will feature more
than a dozen films from artists
Quentin Baillieux, Lia Bertels,
Pete Docter, and many others
from around the world.

SIFF Cinema Uptown

MARCH 10-18

★ Seattle Jewish Film
Festival

This annual film festival explores
and celebrates global Jewish and
Israeli life, history, complexity,
culture, and filmmaking. The
festival showcases international,
independent and award-winning
Jewish-themed and Israeli cin¬
ema, and the audience votes on
their favorites.

Stroum Jewish Community
Center

46 SEATTLE ART AND PERFORMANCE

IK 10 Don

Why you should see it: Four men

cover a masterpiece ( Homogenid] written by
a woman.

When/Where: December 20 at
Neptune Theatre.

By Kim Selling, Charles
Mudede, and Dave Segal

DEC 6

'k Mike Stern Band with Dave
Weckl, Randy Brecker, and Tom
Kennedy

Last year, jazz guitarist Mike Stern
broke just about every bone in his
upper body—or at least, the ones
that count—in a fall. He pushed
himself to get back to playing, but
he had to switch out of no-longer-
possible techniques he'd used for
decades, playing with Miles Davis,
Blood Sweat & Tears, Bela Fleck, Eric
Johnson, Dave Holland, his wife Leni
Stern, and others. Through all of it,
though, he sounds like himself. A
strong but subtle personality who
draws you in close and gets to know

yOU. ANDREW HAMLIN

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $34.50

DEC 6 & MARCH 5

Studio Jazz Ensemble and UW
Modern Band

New England Conservatory of Music-
trained Cuong Vu, who's received
praise from publications including
the New Yorker and the New York
Times, will lead the University of
Washington's Modern Band in inno¬
vative arrangements and original
compositions. Plus, expect big band
arrangements and repertory selec¬
tions from the Studio Jazz Ensemble.
UW Meany Studio Theater,

7:30 pm, $10

DEC 7-10

★ Roy Hargrove Quintet

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, appearing
with saxophonist Justin Robinson,
bassist Ameen Saleem, drummer
Quincy Phillips, and pianist Sullivan
Fortner, sometimes starts a set out
with slow, low, murmuring discus¬
sion between instruments. And
the deeply mystical jazz musicians
believe, at least, that they can talk
on their horns—which, given their
affinity for one another and serving,
so to speak, in the trenches with one
another, I wouldn't doubt. The band
expands this aesthetic, though, so
as to keep speaking through more
conventional selections—things that
sound like bebop, mournful soul,
sad lyricism, frenetic testifying—all
caught up in the concept of conver¬
sation. Since they number five, such
conversation must feature complica¬
tions. And it'll go on for a while, ah
Jazz Alley, $33.50

DEC 9 & 29

★ D'Vonne Lewis

My favorite drummer in Seattle,
D'Vonne Lewis, received his initial
formal training at Roosevelt High
School's prestigious jazz program
and is the drummer for Industrial

Revelation (a group
that won a Stranger
Genius Award in
music in 2014).

D'Vonne Lewis always
makes you aware of
the ground (or grund)
beneath the beat.

But he is not simple, raw, or purely
emotional. There is a richness in this
drumming, cm
Tula's, 7:30 pm, $20 (Dec 9);

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge, 9:30 pm,
free (Dec 29)

DEC 10

★ A Charlie Brown Christmas

The Strawberry Theatre Workshop
will host the Jose "Juicy" Gonzales
Trio as they bring you the entire A
Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
at this annual party.

Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center,

1 pm, 6 pm, $15-$75

University Prep Jazz Extravaganza

Cheer on the skilled musicians of
the future with UPrep's Winter Jazz
Extravaganza. The evening will feature
live sets from their Intermediate Jazz
Ensemble, Advanced Jazz Ensemble,
and multiple jazz combos, all of which
will be playing songs by George
Gershwin, Steely Dan, and more.

The Royal Room, 8-10 pm, free

DEC 11-12

★ Sweet Honey in the Rock

Sweet Honey in the Rock started out
in 1976, the year our increasingly
bizarre country turned 200. Forty-
one years later, they're still black
women singing about important
stuff in close harmonies, with the
urgency of soul and the devotion
of gospel. They added an ASL inter¬
preter, Shirley Childress Saxton, who
stayed with the band from 1981
until her death. I hope they plugged
in another ASL interpreter. You can
snicker at inclusiveness, but that's
what it comes down to (short form).
"We are America... Those other
people are not America." So said
RNC Chairman Richard Bond in 1992.
And it still is news, ah
Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $50

DEC 13

■k Helping Hand: A Night of
Fundraising for Jazz Legend &
Resident Artist Dr. Julian Priester

In America, a jazz giant like trom¬
bonist/composer Julian Priester must
periodically rely on benefit shows
to help him deal with high medi¬
cal bills common to people in their
80s. It's a disgraceful situation, but
thankfully, Priester—best known
for his stellar work in the '70s with
Herbie Hancock's paradigm-shifting
Mwandishi group and for his 1974
fusion classic, Love, Love —has tal¬
ented friends willing to step up and
play their challenging jazz-fusion
compositions to raise much-needed
funds, ds

The Royal Room, 7:30 pm, $20/$25

Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
with Gail Pettis

Earshot Jazz-acclaimed 2010 Vocalist
of the Year Gail Pettis will perform
a program of holiday jazz standards

that show off her silky retro vocal
talents, with the Seattle Women's
Jazz Orchestra.

Columbia City Theater, 7:30 pm, $15

DEC 14

Art of Jazz: Duende Libre

Local power trio Duende Libre will
expand on their innovative, accessi¬
ble jazz for a free, all-ages afternoon
set of tracks from their self-titled
debut album.

Seattle Art Museum, 5:30-7:30 pm,
free

★ Ron Jones' Jazz Forest

Prolific composer Ron Jones has
composed and arranged the music
for Duck Tales, Family Guy, and Star
Trek: The Next Generation. Now he's
back with his Jazz Forest, a collec¬
tive of 12 highly skilled musicians
attempting the synchronicity of a
string quartet with the future-think¬
ing joy of iconic jazz artists.

Tula's, 7pm, $12

DEC 15

Jordan Wiegert Jazz Quintet
Debut

Witness the beginning of a new jazz
talent with this debut performance
of local drummer Jordan Wiegert's
jazz quintet, with featured involve¬
ment from Joey Boyd on saxophone,
Ryan Donnelly on bass, Owen Thayer
on guitar, and Drew Medak on piano.
Vermillion, 7-9 pm, $5

★ Kareem Kandi Band

You cannot separate these parts:
Kareem Kandi, jazz saxophone, and
the Pacific Northwest. Each part is
tied closely and complexly interacts
with the other parts. All three parts
make a whole career that began
in Pierce County, was consolidated
at Cornish College of the Arts, and
has long been at the center of the
region's vibrant jazz scene. Kandi
currently teaches jazz composition
at Tacoma School of the Arts, and he
performs free jazz, trad jazz, modern
jazz, funk, and blues. To get a good
idea of his talent (he has a smart,
swift, agile sound), download the
album See What I'm Saying, cm
Tula's, 7:30 pm, $20

★ Michael Owcharuk Trio

Musician/composer Mike Owcharuk
will play tight/loose jazz piano.

As Charles Mudede describes him:
"Michael Owcharuk is a very talented
and entertaining local pianist who
has collaborated with almost all of
the leading figures in our productive
and accomplished jazz scene. His play
has an experimental edge that's cou¬
pled with a strong sense of swing."
Vito's Restaurant & Lounge, 9 pm, free

Scott Bradlee's Postmodern
Jukebox

In a reimagining of contemporary
pop hits in the styles of jazz, ragtime,
and swing classics of the '20s though
the '50s, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern

Jukebox busts genres with a rotating
collective of musicians and vocalists
who attempt to cross all musical
boundaries and generations.
Paramount Theatre, 8 pm, $25.50-$101

DEC 16

★ Susan Pascal Quartet with Bill
Anschell, Chuck Deardorf, and
John Bishop

I'm not big into jazz guitar. But what
breaks this dumb feeling in me every
time is when a jazz guitarist performs
with a jazz vibraphonist. Those won¬
drous, vaporous, Venusian sounds of
the vibraphone seem to magically
transform the licks and picks of the
guitar into something that's utterly
necessary and meaningful to the
jazz home. For example, when Susan
Pascal, Seattle's great vibraphonist,
plays with Milo Petersen, a local jazz
guitarist and educator, I honestly fall
in love with an instrument that does
almost nothing for me on all other
occasions. Pascal, an artist who really
knows her instrument and handles
her sticks in the way that all master¬
ful vibraphonists do (like wands
casting warm spells), also frequently
performs with Bill Anschell, an estab¬
lished and very productive pianist, cm
Tula's, 7:30 pm, $20

DEC 17

Jazz in the City: Garfield High
School Jazz Ensemble

Witness the prolific students of the
Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble
as they jam together at this special
holiday concert with all 30 members.
Frye Art Museum, 2 pm, free

DEC 18 & 20

★ The Music of A Charlie Brown
Christmas

The core tune of A Charlie Brown
Christmas is, I think, one of the most
beautiful pieces of jazz ever com¬
posed. CM
The Royal Room

DEC 19-20

The Senate

Seattle string trio the Senate will
reunite for the holiday season with
two nights of barn-burning Dionysian
folk and rock-infused jazz.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $32.50

DEC 20

★ Industrial Revelation Plays
Bjork

It's doubtful anyone saw this com¬
ing: Stranger Genius Award winners
Industrial Revelation will be covering
Icelandic singer/songwriter/producer
Bjork's Homogenic in its entirety.
Released in 1997, Flomogenic is a
richly orchestrated electronic song
suite that stuffs 10 pounds of fraught
emotions into a five-pound bag.
Homogenic is the record on which
Bjork became really serious. Why is a
band most people consider "jazz"—
albeit one of the more voraciously
eclectic ensembles in that genre—
covering a 20-year-old Bjork album?
Initially, the premise seems surprising.
But when you ponder how both art¬
ists share inclinations to bust outside
of genre constrictions and blur stylis¬
tic conventions, the decision doesn't
seem so left-field. "For me," explains
Ahamefule Oluo, the Industrial
Revelation's trumpeter and composer,
"1997 was just as much defined by
Bjork's Homogenic, and it made me
think a lot about the way we treat
masterpieces made by men versus
masterpieces made by women, how
we idolize them, and how we choose
to honor them, and how rarely
men celebrate the music of women.
And it got me thinking about what
Industrial Revelation would sound
like playing those incredible tunes
and the sound in my head told me
immediately that we had to make
this happen." ds
Neptune Theatre, 8 pm, $18.50

DEC 21

★ Third Annual Kristin Chambers
Snow Globe

Now in its third year, the Snow Globe
will bring a flurry of holiday spirit
with a live soundtrack provided by
Kristin Chambers's dulcet tones, and
the Mack Grout Trio playing Vince
Guaraldi's score from A Charlie
Brown Christmas.

Fremont Abbey, 8 pm, $14-$25

Kate Voss

Kate Voss, one half of Sundae + Mr.
Goessl and voted Best Jazz Artist
of 2017 by Seattle Weekly, will sing

sweet jazz classics with a twist.

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge, 9 pm, free

DEC 21-23

★ Norman Brown, Bobby
Caldwell, and Marion Meadows

Grammy-winning guitarist Norman
Brown is known for being unusually
adept at fusing strands of pop and
jazz into lithe new shapes. He'll be
joined by Bobby Caldwell and Marion
Meadows on this R&B and jazz-cen¬
tric "Joyous Christmas Tour."

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $50

DEC 22

★ Thomas Marriott

Jazz trumpeter Thomas Marriott has
won the Golden Ear from Earshot
Jazz seven times.

Tula's, 7:30 pm, $20

DEC 23

★ Grace Love

Not to over-editorialize, but Grace
Love is a thoroughly invigorating
vocal powerhouse and a Seattle
treasure, and she deserves all of
our money.

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge,

9:30 pm, free

Richard Cole Quartet

Acclaimed saxophonist Richard
Cole, who has performed with
greats like the Temptations and
Julian Priester, and his quartet bring
their straight ahead but incredibly
tight jazz to Tula's.

Tula's, 7:30 pm, $20

DEC 26-27

★ Sara Gazarek:

Home for the Holidays

Last time I caught Sara Gazarek here
in town, at the Triple Door, I thought
I knew what she was about: warm,
elegant jazz vocals caught up in ever-
novel and stimulating arrangements.
Boy was I wrong! She was all about
warm, elegant jazz vocals caught
up in ever-novel and stimulating
arrangements, but she sang high, she
sang low, she sang heartbreak, she
held notes for mystifying lifetimes.
She dropped beats, added intros,
swirled songs into medleys, blew
notes out like candles, and let them
die away like sustain-pedaled tones
from Josh Nelson's piano. Her latest
album with Nelson, Dream in the
Blue, was 2016's best album. Gazarek
is already the best, and she just keeps
getting better, ah
Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $32.50

DEC 28-31

★ Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band

Poncho Sanchez, whose band won a
Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album in
2000, is one of the foremost, if not
the biggest, percussionists in Latin
jazz right now. He will perform with
his air-tight band, drawing from a
decades-long repertoire.

Jazz Alley, $36.50

DEC 30

★ The Sacred Music of Duke
Ellington

This is the annual concert of Sacred
Music by Duke Ellington. Ellington
was, of course, the greatest and most
creative figure of the big band era.

He had, one could argue, three main
musical projects: One was the produc¬
tion of dance-hall hits, two was the
production of serious black music
(music that would represent the
400-year history of African descen¬
dants in the world that was new to
Europeans), and three was the pro¬
duction of pieces that expressed his
religious/existential feelings. Tonight
is devoted to the third, and in many
ways most profound, of Ellington's
projects. Anyone who has heard his
composition "Come Sunday" instantly
understands that Ellington felt God
as something that's inside and not
outside of (or remote from) the
human experience. He was, in short,
a Spinozist. And so was, for that mat¬
ter, John Coltrane. The theology of
Spinoza, a 17th century Dutch Jewish
philosopher, has many features that
agree with jazz spirituality, cm
University Christian Church, 7:30 pm,
$25/$40

DEC 31

New Year's Eve at the Royal
Room

The Royal Room Orchestra brings
you the swing of yesteryear, with
a jazz dinner and swing dancing.

The evening's entertainment will
include sonic renderings of pieces by

Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny
Goodman, Artie Shaw, Sun Ra, and
more.

The Royal Room, 8 pm, $60

New Year's Eve: Great Balls of
Fire!

Allow yourself to be swept away on
a sonic journey of over a century of
great piano hits, led by pianist and
singer Tony DeSare. After the per¬
formance, stay for the post-concert
party, which will include a glass of
champagne, a live musical perfor¬
mance, and dancing to the midnight
countdown and beyond.

Benaroya Hall, 9 pm, $56-$154

Stephanie Porter Quintet

Well-respected and long-gigging jazz
singer Stephanie Porter will take the
stage with her quintet on the biggest
night of the year.

Tula's, 8 pm, $45

JAN 2-4

Pearl Django with Neil Andersson

Strongly influenced by their cho¬
sen namesake, guitarist Django
Reinhardt, Pearl Django play Hot
Club-style g*psy jazz with intricate
finger-picking and a global rep¬
ertoire. They'll be joined by Neil
Andersson on guitar.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $30.50

JAN 7

Dark Divas

Sink into decades of lush soul and jazz
music history with this theatrical eve¬
ning tribute to "Dark Divas," the black
women who changed the industry
with their art, including Billie Holiday,
Eartha Kitt, and Nina Simone.

Triple Door, 7 pm, $25

JAN 9-10

★ Martin Taylor and Alison Burns

According to jazz guitar virtuoso Pat
Matheny, Martin Taylor is "one of
the most awesome solo guitar play¬
ers in the history of the instrument."
Join Martin for two nights as he
proves Pat right.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, 9:30 pm, $31.50

Monty Alexander

Pianist Monty Alexander has spent
five decades building and maintain¬
ing a reputation for bridging the
worlds of American jazz, popular
song, and the music of his home
country of Jamaica. He'll be joined
by JJ Shakur on bass and Jason
Brown on drums.

Triple Door, 7:30 pm, $27-$35

JAN II

Art of Jazz: Gary Hammon
Quintet

Tenor saxman Gary Hammon will be
joined by his quintet for a free, all¬
ages afternoon set of preserving the
style hallmarks of the Blue Note era.
Seattle Art Museum, 5:30 pm, free

JAN 11-14

Peter White

Contemporary acoustic jazz guitar¬
ist Peter White will hit the stage
for four nights with his full band
in support of his last album release
Groovin', his third collection of
guitar-centric interpretations of
classic compositions from the '50s
through the '80s.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $34.50

JAN 13

Johnaye Kendrick

Seattle favorite Johnaye Kendrick has
spent decades perfecting her vocal
skill among the likes of genre icons
Terence Blanchard, Wayne Shorter,
and Herbie Hancock. This morning
show will include lively jazz and con¬
versation for all ages.

Town Hall, 11 am, $5

JAN 16-17

Mark Hummel's Chicago Blues
Harmonica Blowout

Mouth-harp master Mark Hummel
will unleash the ultimate in blues har¬
monica with special guests like Billy
Boy Arnold, John Primer, Deitra Farr,
Oscar Wilson (of the Cash Box Kings),
Billy Flynn, RJ Mischo, Bob Welsh, RW
Grigsby, and June Core.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $34.50

JAN 17

Piano Starts Here: The Music of
Duke Ellington & Count Basie

Piano Starts Here as a series show¬
cases the work of musical icons who
contributed to the knowledge and
appreciation of the instrument.

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12.9 Holiday Hootenanny and Sing-A-Long with Carrie Clark &
the Lonesome Lovers and the Von Piglet Family Players

12.13 Helping Hand: A night of fundraising for Jazz Legend &

Resident Artist Dr. Julian Priester

12.14 ...And Other Stories: A personal storytelling open mic ft.

Sam Blackman and hosted by Danielle Gregoire

12.15 Mary J. Blige Tribute Show - Songs of Life:

A Music Journey of Love & Strength

12.16 Holiday Sing-Along w/ Sing Noel (32nd Street Singers)

12.16 Jessica Lurie Ensemble CD Release ft. Todd Sickafoose,

Allison Miller, Andy Coe, and Naomi Siegel

12.17 North Corner Chamber Orchestra: Mystics, Servants, & Devils

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12.30 MVP: Michael Jackson vs. Prince Live!

12.31 New Year's Eve at The Royal Room ft. the music of Duke Ellington,
Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Sun Ra and more

1.13 Seattle World Tour: All Star Opera, Emma Lee Toyoda
Camilla Recchio, Cold Comfort

1.17 Piano Starts Here: The Music of Duke Ellington/Count Basie

1.18 Triple Trumpet Thursday ft. Nathan Breedlove,

Thomas Marriott and Jared Hall

1.27 Django Reinhardt's Birthday w/ Ranger and the ‘‘Re-Arrangers"
2.3 Local Royalty Show: Warren Dunes feat. Julia Massey,

Sidecar, and Tim Kennedy

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This iteration celebrates Duke
Ellington and Count Basie,
both vast contributors to the
American canon of jazz composi¬
tion and performance. Musicians
for the evening will be playing
on the Royal Room's Steinway B
grand piano.

Royal Room, 7:30 pm, $8-$12

JAN 18

Alex Skolnick Trio

Previously of well-known thrash
metal band Testament, Alex
Skolnick has moved on to more
in-depth sonic pastures with
this trio set on interpreting jazz
through a metal lens and vice
versa.

Triple Door, 7:20 pm, $25-$32

An Evening with the Jovino
Santos Neto Quinteto

Expect Brazilian-inspired lyricism
and invention from Golden Ear¬
winning local star Jovino Santos
Neto and his band, featuring
Neto himself on piano, flute,
and melodica, Ben Thomas on
vibraphone and bandoneon,
Chuck Deardorf on bass, Mark
Ivester on drums, and Jeff Busch
on percussion.

Resonance at SOMA Towers,
Bellevue, 7:30-9:30 pm, $20/$25

Triple Trumpet Thursday

Ready yourself for Triple
Trumpet Thursday, an onslaught
of top jazz talent including
Nathan Breedlove, Thomas
Marriott, and Jared Hall, each
with their own band.

The Royal Room, 7:30 pm, $15

JAN 18-21

★ War

LA funk/soul ensemble War have
split into two camps: One goes
by the name the Lowrider Band,
while original lead singer and
keyboardist Lonnie Jordan has
retained the War moniker. It's
not an optimal state of affairs,
but War's hit-laden 70s catalog
is so potent and redolent of
greasily groovy good times and
carefree summers (except for the
ominous "Four Cornered Room,"
which I consider one of War's
peaks) that you can be assured
no matter which unit's playing
them, they're going to transport
you to a better, warmer place.

So, great timing for War to do a
four-night run in mid-January, ds
Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $50.50

JAN 21

'k Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo have
a whole bunch of guys sing¬
ing bass. That's the secret to
their success. Okay, Paul Simon
"found" them, and that's been
the secret to their success in
what we loosely term "the
West." By 1986, though, when
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
recorded and performed with
Simon, they already had more
than 20 albums in their native
South Africa. Now they have
more than 50 albums. They
never stop touring, and they've
outlasted the racist apartheid
system under which the older
members grew up. They're still
ambassadors to South African
culture. And they make people
happy—boldly, unironically, and
enthusiastically, ah
Neptune Theatre, 8 pm, $33.50

JAN 22

Hopscotch

Jazz duo Charlie Hiestand
(piano), Jeanie Mishler (voice),
and their band will perform
swingy jazz and tap dances.

The Royal Room, 7:30 pm, free

JAN 23-24

Harold and Ruy Lopez-Nussa

Within this family affair, Cuban
composer and pianist Harold
Lopez-Nussa will perform works
of classical, native, and jazz inspi¬
rations with younger brother
Ruy Lopez-Nussa on drums and
percussion.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $23.50

JAN 25-28

Najee

The saxophonist so smooth that
he only needs one name, Najee is
touring in support of his recently
released album Poetry in Motion.
Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $34.50

Why you should see him:

Because of his head-nodding beats
and atmospheric keyboard tones.

When/Where: February
27-28 at Jazz Alley.

JAN 27

Django's Birthday Party

Celebrate guitar prodigy Django
Reinhardt with an evening trib¬
ute by g*psy jazz musicians from
all over Puget Sound gather¬
ing for what would have been
Django's 107th birthday, hosted
by Hot Club of Seattle and
Ranger & the Re-Arrangers.

The Royal Room, 6 pm, donation

FEB 1-4

Seattle Improvised Music
Festival

The majority of this year's lineup
have never played the festival
before. Following the format of
last year's event, three visiting art¬
ists—pianist Lisa Cay Miller, flutist
Nicole Mitchell, and multi-instru¬
mentalist Douglas R. Ewart—and
various Northwest improvisers
will meet over the course of
the weekend in multiple duo,
trio, and quartet configurations
curated by Greg Campbell, Kate
Olson, and Steve Peters.

Good Shepherd Center, $5-$15
suggested donation

FEB 7-28

The Soliloquies of Roberta
Flack & Donny Hathaway

This series will serve to celebrate
the legendary musical col¬
laboration of Roberta Flack and
Donny Hathaway (1945-1979),
who recorded a duet album
entitled Roberta Flack & Donny
Hathaway in 1972. Their expres¬
sive work will be revisited by
local musicians alongside a cadre
of local singers.

The Royal Room

FEB 13-15

★ Mindi Abair Band

Contemporary sax thriller Mindi
Adair will rip through Seattle
over Valentine's Day week with
her bluesy, jazzy band of bad
boys, the Bone Shakers.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $34.50/$46.50

FEB 14-15

★ Jazz Innovations

Led by a mentoring faculty team
of professional musicians, UW
student jazz ensembles will pay
homage to the many varied
icons of jazz and tackle new
and progressive orchestral jazz
compositions.

Brechemin Auditorium, 7:30
pm, free

FEB 16-17

★ The Jazz Epistles with
Abdullah Ibrahim, Ekaya and
Terence Blanchard

Back in the 1980s, Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)
only operated between five in
the afternoon and midnight,
and in the hour or so before
programming started, their
station would accompany the
transmission test pattern with
music. Often this music was by
Abdullah Ibrahim, and often
the tunes that flowed from
the TV's speakers were either
Ibrahim's exquisitely affirmative
"Zimbabwe" or his masterpiece
of jazz-jive "Mannenberg." All
around me was the sorrowful,
lyrical, loop-like jazz of the great
South African pianist. What
Ibrahim accomplished as an art¬
ist was to end the split between
lyrical sensitivity and aggressive
percussiveness. He is one of the
giants of Africa, cm
Jazz Alley, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $46.50

FEB 17

Mike Dillon Band, Amandla,
Claude Coleman Jr.

Vibraphone and notable ranter
Mike Dillon plays experimental
jazz with his band that includes
notable New Orleans musicians
Nathan Lumberton on bass,

Cliff Hines on guitar, and Paul
Thibodeaux and Claude Coleman
Jr. taking turns on power per¬
cussion. The Mike Dillon Band
will be joined by Amandla and
Claude Coleman Jr. of Ween.

The Royal Room, $12/$15

FEB 17 & 19

Seattle Repertory Jazz
Orchestra: Brubeck 8c
Desmond — Inseparable

The jazz masters of Seattle
Repertory Jazz Orchestra will
take on the legendary partner¬
ship of composer-pianist Dave
Brubeck and alto saxophonist
Paul Desmond.

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $15-$49
(Feb 17); Edmonds Center for the
Arts, 7:30 pm, $10-$35 (Feb 19)

FEB 23

★ Miles Electric Band

Don't listen to jazz purists: The
albums and live performances
from Miles Davis's electric era
(1969 to 1975, from In a Silent
Way to Pangaea) represent some
of the most exciting, innovative
music in any genre, in human
history. Their convergence of
humid funk and volcanic psyche¬
delia, plus Davis and producer
Teo Macero's radical use of space
exploded conventional notions
of how jazz could progress after
hard bop. The 11-strong Miles
Electric Band includes alums from
the legendary trumpeter's ensem¬
bles, such as tabla player Badal
Roy, P-Funk guitarist Blackbyrd
McKnight, and drummer Vince
Wilburn Jr. In addition, Rolling
Stones/Sting sideman Darryl
Jones contributes bass. There's no
way this can't be amazing, ds
Moore Theatre, 7:30 pm,
$22.50-$78

FEB 25

k Snarky Puppy, Banda
Magda

Grammy-winning jazz-fusion
ensemble Snarky Puppy, whose
many members qualify as solo
heavy-hitters in their own right,
are known for taking their jams
to the next level, cornering the
genres of funk, world, and soul,
all with a jazzy filter.

Moore Theatre, 8 pm, $32.50

FEB 27-28

★ Dr. Lonnie Smith

Yes, you probably confuse Dr.
Lonnie Smith with Lonnie Liston
Smith, as they're both crucial cogs
in the jazz-fusion continuum.

Both came to prominence in the
late '60s and 70s during soul-jazz
and celestial funk's peak years,
and their head-nodding beats
and atmospheric keyboard tones
frequently found their way into
hiphop productions via the won¬
ders of sampling. However, you
will know Dr. Lonnie Smith by
his turban, his articulate, earthy
Hammond B-3 organ vamps, and
his swanky cover of Donovan's
"Sunshine Superman." ds
Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $30.50

MARCH 1-4

★ Evan Flory-Barnes: On
Loving the Muse and Family

Evan-Flory Barnes, celebrated
bassist of psych-jazz jugger¬
nauts Industrial Revelation, will
perform "On Loving," his new
full-length work modeled as a
variety show in the tradition

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of the Nat King Cole
Show or Dean Martin
Show. The piece is
described as a "post-
patriarchal celebration
of life through music
and the multitudinous
forms of human rela¬
tionships."

On the Boards, $23/$30

MARCH 2

★ Global Rhythms: Summit
in Seattle

Vijay Iyer, son of Tamil immigrants
to the United States, plays mostly
piano, got a degree in phys¬
ics from Yale, and went to UC
Berkeley. He's smarter than most
of us will ever be and focuses on
the psychology of music, and he
reads at least as well as he sounds,
but he still swings. He bends clas¬
sical constructions to make them
sound a bit like jazz, and the
other way around, ah
Cornish Playhouse at Seattle
Center, 7:30 pm, $20

MARCH 6-7

★ Dee Dee Bridgewater

Michigan-born jazz singer Dee
Dee Bridgewater boasts an agile,
dulcet voice that's charmed its
way onto sessions with some of
the genre's most interesting art¬
ists, including Roy Ayers, Stanley
Clarke, Cecil McBee, Norman
Connors, and Carlos Garnett.
Bridgewater's at home in spiri¬
tual-jazz settings that allow her to
improvise with serene poise and
silky ebullience. Now 67, she's one
of the most revered vocalists in
jazz and a key ambassador for the
music thanks to her 23-year stint
hosting NPR's JazzSet with Dee
Dee Bridgewater, ds
Triple Door, 7:30 pm, $38-$45

Veronica Swift with the
Benny Green Trio

Young jazz vocalist Veronica
Swift is rapidly rising through
the genre ranks, and she'll be
joined in this performance of
romantic jazz standards by key¬
board genius Benny Green and
his masterful trio.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $30.50

MARCH 8

Aldo Lopez-Gavilan with the
Harlem Quartet

Cuban pianist and composer
Aldo Lopez-Gavilan will return
to the region for a night of
dynamic classical compositions
and Latin-infused jazz with the
Harlem Quartet.

Edmonds Center for the Arts,

7:30 pm, $19-$49

MARCH 9

★ Bobby Previte

In 2016, inventive jazz drum¬
mer Bobby Previte, keyboardist
Wayne Horvitz, and violinist
Alex Guy performed an improv
experimental-electronic set that
blew my mind. No matter that it
was in front of a couple dozen
people on a Monday night; the
trio flexed the sort of virtuosic
chops and shock-tactic moves
that make for a singular listen¬
ing experience, a rare feat in
any genre. Since that night, I've
made a mental note not to miss
any Previte gigs. He's an excep¬
tionally adaptable player who's
worked with a wide range of
upper-echelon musicians such as
John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Butch

Morris, and Iggy Pop, and also
formed the Voodoo Orchestra
to interpret Miles Davis's Bitches
Brew. Previte excels at taking
compositions or improvisations
to fascinating places most drum¬
mers wouldn't conceive of. ds
Royal Room

MARCH 8-11

Billy Cobham's Crosswinds
Project

Prolific drummer Billy Cobham
will perform with his new percus¬
sion ensemble, the Crosswinds
Project, an effort designed to
reflect upon his second record¬
ing on Atlantic Records in 1974.
He'll be joined by Ernie Watts on
sax, Scott Tibbs on keys, Fareed
Haque on guitar, and Tim Landers
on bass.

Jazz Alley, 7:30 pm, $32.50

MARCH 15

★ A Tribute to Paul Desmond
with Brent Jensen

The best musician in the Dave
Brubeck Quartet was not the pia¬
nist, Dave Brubeck. Indeed, I'm of
the opinion that Brubeck was a
second-rate pianist. The brilliant
musician in the quartet was Paul
Desmond, the alto saxophonist.
Two things made him great; the
clarity of his sound and the ease
of his swing. Desmond could
blow a beam of sound that
had the appearance of having
no imperfections. And he had
enough blues in his bones to
give that beam the swing not of
a stiff pendulum (that's Brubeck
at the keys) but a body attuned
to the rhythms of life and of the
streets. Let's celebrate Desmond
with Brent Jensen, cm
Resonance at SOMA Towers,
Bellevue, 7:30-9:30 pm, $20/$25

TUESDAYS

★ The Suffering Fuckheads

The Royal Room, 10 pm, free

THURSDAYS

k Jazz at Barca

Barca, 9 pm-12 am, free

SUNDAYS

k Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra

Tula's, 7:30 pm, $10

k The Ron Weinstein Trio

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge,

9:30 pm, free

EVERY SECOND TUESDAY

★ David Marriott's
Triskaidekaband

Tula's, 7:30 pm, $13

EVERY SECOND THURSDAY

★ Jennifer Kienzle

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge,

9 pm, free

EVERY SECOND SATURDAY

★ Kareem Kandi

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge,

9:30 pm, free

EVERY THIRD WEDNESDAY

★ Brad Gibson Presents

Vito's Restaurant & Lounge,

9 pm, free

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DEC 6

Carol Fest

Join with the Chamber Singers,
University Chorale, University Singers,
Women's Choir, Gospel Choir, and UW
Men's Glee Club for a program of all
holiday carols of every style, featuring
seven conductors, 500 singers, four
graduate conductors, three choral
faculty, and two hours of music.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm, $10

DEC 7

Wind Ensemble and Symphonic
Band with Michael Partington

Stephen Goss' A Concerto of Colours,
among other works, will be performed
by guest guitarist Michael Partington
with the UW Wind Ensemble, sym¬
phonic, and concert bands.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm, $10

DEC 8

The Miro Quartet

Centrum's 2017 "Ensemble-In-
Residence" Miro Quartet will perform
a strings-based program with selec¬
tions by Haydn, Puts, and Schumann.
415 Westlake, 8 pm, $45

Sammamish Symphony
Orchestra: Christmas in Bellevue

In a nod to the impending Yuletide,
Sammamish Symphony will perform
a traditional holiday pops program
with a blend of festive symphonic
works.

Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue,

7:30 pm, $10-$20

UW Symphony with
Jon Kimura Parker

The university symphony will be
joined by acclaimed pianist Jon
Kimura Parker in a program of music
including Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5
in B-flat Major, Op. 100, plus a special
performance of Gershwin's Piano
Concerto in F Major.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm, $10/$15

DEC 8-10

Holiday Pops

Broadway star Darius de Haas,
acclaimed conductor Stuart Chafetz,
and the University of Washington
Chorale will headline a program of
holiday favorites with the Seattle
Symphony.

Benaroya Hall, $34-$96

Light in the Darkness

Pacific MusicWorks will perform a
concert of Bach's Cantatas for all
the classical-loving, season-obsessed
denizens of Seattle this Advent. The
program of these four cantatas will

feature the voices of soprano Tess
Altiveros, alto Laura Pudwell, tenor
Zachary Finkelstein, and baritone
Zachary Lennox along with Stephen
Stubbs and the PMW Orchestra.
Trinity Lutheran Church (Dec 8),
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Mercer
Island (Dec 9), St. Mark's Cathedral
(Dec 10), $20-$45

DEC 9

'k Buon Natale: An Italian
Christmas

Celebrate Christmas the Italian way
with Buon Natale, a holiday tradition
of the Seattle Choral Company that
lays out centuries of musical contri¬
butions made by Italians and Italian
Americans. The concert will include
Renaissance motets by Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina, Giovanni
Gabrieli, and Luca Marenzio, opera
masterworks by composers Giuseppe
Verdi and Gioacchino Rossini, opera
excerpts by Italian Americans Gian
Carlo Menotti and Dominick Argento,
and popular Italian Christmas carols.
St. Mark's Cathedral, 8 pm, $25

k Cornish Presents: Quince
Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

Quince Contemporary Vocal
Ensemble—Elizabeth Pearse
(soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo
soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
(soprano), and Carrie Henneman
Shaw (soprano)—weave strangely
beautiful webs of song out of their
incomparably pliable vocal cords.
Their intricate chamber-group inter¬
play sounds at once ancient and
avant-garde, and it abounds with
surprising dynamics. QCVE could
conceivably appeal to fans of 20th-
century radical singers like Joan La
Barbara and Urszula Dudziak. The
group recently won a Chamber Music
America award to commission a song
cycle by LI White, who has worked
with Bang on a Can All-Stars and
Alarm Will Sound, among others, ds
PONCHO Concert Hall, 8-10 pm,

$10-$20

'k Handel's Messiah

For two concerts each year, the
Northwest Chorale send all their
show proceeds to Northwest Harvest
to feed those in need. This concert
will focus on choral performances of
Handel's classic biblical work Messiah.
Edmonds United Methodist Church,
6:30 pm, free, donations accepted

Montrose Trio

After the Tokyo String Quartet retired
in 2013, two of its members—violin¬
ist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive

Beatrice & Benedict

Greensmith—found a new
partner in pianist Jon Kimura
Parker to form again as the
new Montrose Trio. Since
then, they have earned a
reputation for unparalleled
musicianship, which they'll
showcase in this program of
pieces by Haydn, Brahms, and
Shostakovich.

Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $44+

k Nowell Sing We

The Advent performance of the
Medieval Women's Choir's 27th sea¬
son will be Nowell Sing We, a winter
concert that continues their tradition
of illuminating the season with music
of religious antiquity.

St. James Cathedral, 8 pm, $15-$35

Seth Parker Woods, Cello

Critically acclaimed cellist Seth Parker
Woods will perform a program that
includes works composed specifically
for him making their Seattle debut
by Edward Hamel, Pierre Alexandre
Tremblay, Alvin Singleton Argoru II,
and George Lewis.

Chapel Performance Space, 8 pm,
$5-$15

DEC 9 & 16

Seattle Pro Musica: Winter Rose

The winter concert of Seattle Pro
Musica's 2017-2018 season will dwell
upon the winter rose, also known as
the Christmas rose or the snow rose,
which blooms during the darkest,
coldest days of the year among the
mountain ranges of Central Europe.
Seen as a symbol of hope, this rose
has inspired a program of holiday
favorites like "Lo, How a Rose E'er
Blooming" by Praetorius and "A
Spotless Rose" by Herbert Howells.
Seattle First Baptist Church, 3 pm,
7:30 pm, $12-$38 (Dec 9); Bastyr
University, Kenmore, 3 pm, 7:30 pm,
$12-$38 (Dec 16)

DEC 9-22

A Festival of Lessons 8c Carols

Northwest Boychoir join with
Vocalpoint! Seattle to present the
story of the Nativity told through
reading, choral arrangements, and
audience-participation carols. The
show will be presented at churches
across Seattle, as well as at Benaroya
Hall on December 22.

Various locations, $11-$81

DEC ID

Christmas with Seattle Pro Musica

Seattle Pro Musica will present their
annual family holiday concert with

Why you should see it: It's
a novel adaptation of Shakespeare's
exuberant comedy.

When/Where: February 24-
March 10 at McCaw Flail.

an evening full of Christmas touches
like traditional carols, holiday stories,
and an audience sing-along.
University Unitarian Church, 3 pm,
$5-$20

k Portland Cello Project: Cele¬
brating 20 Years of OK Computer

On the one hand, the only version of
the best Radiohead album to date
that anyone needs is the one they
have humming on their hard drives.
On the other, the warmth of four
cellos, the power of a substantial
orchestra, and the poly-vocal possibil¬
ities proffered by a nine-headed choir
does make for one hell of a 20th
birthday party for OK Computer. In
honor of the special loneliness of
feeling alone in a crowded room
together, one of Radiohead's signa¬
ture subjects, let us extract ourselves
from our bedrooms and party darkly
along with Portland Cello Project, rs
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm

DEC 18-23

Seattle Men's Chorus: A Sassy
Brassy Holiday

In a landmark holiday event, the
Seattle Men's Chorus will perform
tracks of the season that are the
sassiest and brassiest, like their own
revamped takes on "Joy to the
World," "A Super Gay Christmas,"
and "Let It Snow."

Benaroya Hall, $34-$84

DEC 10-11

Holiday Pops!

Cascade Symphony Orchestra will
present their annual two-night
Christmas extravaganza that blends
classical compositions, traditional
hymns, carols, and pop culture favor¬
ites from seasonal films.

Edmonds Center for the Arts,

7:30 pm, $10-$27

DEC 15

A Byzantine Christmas: The Sun
of Justice

As directed by Associate Music
Director John Michael Boyer, chorale
ensemble Cappella Romana will
perform Byzantine chant pieces in
Greek, Arabic, and English, along
with traditional Greek carols known

as kalanda, for this holiday season
production.

St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox
Church, 8 pm, $24-$49

DEC 15-17

The Coats Annual Holiday
Extraordinaire - Shine On!!

Seattle vocal band the Coats return
for their annual holiday spectacular, a
night of seamless a cappella arrange¬
ments of holiday classics and more
contemporary favorites.

Benaroya Hall, $42.50

k Handel's Messiah

Experience the true power of
Handel's classic as you take in this
towering (and seasonally ubiquitous)
work performed by our very own
internationally renowned Symphony.
Benaroya Hall, $24-$89

DEC 16

★ Lindsey Stirling

Classical violinist Lindsey Stirling, 31,
is trying to cross over to the pop and
EDM worlds. It's a bit of an awkward
fit, fusing virtuosic strings redolent
of 19th-century Europe with the
distorted bass drops and massive,
splashy beats of this decade's brostep.
But one must give credit to Stirling
for attempting such an unlikely
commingling of musical elements.
Against the odds, her bold stab at
making stuffy classical music shake
its ass has garnered Stirling a large
following. This show is part of her
Warmer in Winter Christmas Tour, ds
Paramount Theatre, 8 pm, $31-$969

DEC 16-17

NOCCO: Mystics, Servants, 8t
Devils

Just in time for the Winter Solstice,
North Corner Chamber Orchestra will
present a program that juxtaposes
the old world with the new, bring¬
ing together mystical sensibilities
involving magic and religious devo¬
tion. Enjoy the premiere of Seattle
composer Jim Knapp's latest piece,
commissioned directly by NOCCO,
as well as Arvo Part's Fratres, the
Brandenburg Concerto #1 by J.S.

Bach, and Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale.
Pilgrim Hall, Magnolia United
Church of Christ, 2-4 pm, $15/$25
(Dec 16); The Royal Room, 7:30 pm,
$10-$25 (Dec 17)

DEC 17

Opera on Tap Christmas Special

In their annual holiday show, the pro¬
fessional singers of Opera On Tap will
bring Christmas to the masses, hosted
by Managing Divo Robert McPherson.
Blue Moon Tavern, 7 pm, $5

DEC 18-19

Ensign Symphony & Chorus:
Hosannah!

Ensign Symphony & Chorus will
begin their new winter season with
Hosannah!, an evening of lush holi¬
day traditions explored through song
and orchestral arrangement, with
Christmas favorites that "truly cel¬
ebrate the birth of Jesus Christ."
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $18-$38

DEC 19 & 21

Venetian Women: Vivaldi's Gloria
and Magnificat

Originally written while he worked
at a Venetian orphanage for girls,
Vivaldi's "Gloria" and "Magnificat"
dwell on the otherworldly power of
the feminine. These pieces will be
performed as they were designed,
for an all-female orchestra, soloists,
and choral ensemble.

Bastyr University Chapel (Dec 19),
Seattle First Baptist Church (Dec 21),
7:30 pm, $20-$45

DEC 22

★ Geoffrey Castle's 10th Annual
Celtic Christmas Celebration

Rock and folk violinist Geoffrey
Castle is now in his 10th year of pre¬
senting his annual Celtic Christmas
Celebration. Joining him this year
will be Seattle operatic duo Pamela
and Veronica Nim, the Seattle Irish
Dance Company, legendary drum¬
mer Allan White, and local vocalist
and guitarist Dan Connolly.

Kirkland Performance Center, 8 pm,
$30-$45

DEC 23

Magical Strings: A Celtic Yuletide

The Bouldings, a big, musical
Northwest family, make up a Celtic
string ensemble. This season, they

will inspire some holiday craic with
the help of the Tara Academy of
Irish Dance, Dublin-born guitarist
Colm MacCarthaigh, and other col¬
laborators.

Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue,

7 pm, $18-$28

DEC 26

★ The Brian Setzer Orchestra's
14th Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour

Reasonable expectations: There shall
be rock! There shall be roll with the
rock! There shall be rock with the
roll! There shall be swing! There
shall be sing with the swing! Folks
will be swing dancing in the aisles!
Possibly even in the lobby! There
shall be a horn section! There shall
be jumping, and jiving, to boot!

The set shall consist of mostly but
not entirely Christmas songs! Brian
Setzer will announce the release
of some new Christmas album! He
already has three! Andrew hamlin
Paramount Theatre, 7:30 pm, $41-$96

DEC 28

Byron Schenkman & Friends: An
Evening of Viennese Classics

Renowned harpsichordist Byron
Schenkman will host an evening
that focuses on cherished classics by
Viennese composers like Beethoven,
Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert.
Benaroya Hall, 7 pm, $10-$42

DEC 28-30

★ Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Things you may or may not know
about Beethoven's 9th: It was his last
symphony. Other composers became
scared of writing a ninth symphony
because the ninth was his last. He
was almost totally deaf when he con¬
ducted the premiere, so the perform¬
ers had to ignore him entirely! He was
so deaf he couldn't hear the applause
at the end—five standing ovations
in all. A contralto named Caroline
Unger had to turn him around so he
could see the clapping hands and stuff
thrown into the air. Caroline Unger
was on the bill because Beethoven
added singing to the final movement
of this huge mother, which takes
more than an hour to perform, post-
to-post. Whew, ah
Benaroya Hall, $27-$131

JAN 4 & 6

★ Mozart Symphony No. 39

After having been seemingly lost to
the ravages of time, the phantom¬
like "Funeral Song" will triumphantly
arrive in Seattle, after being redis¬
covered in Russia, as the cornerstone
of this program, featuring Mozart's
innovative 39th Symphony and
Ligeti's Violin Concerto, illustrated by
acclaimed violinist Augustin Hadelich.
Benaroya Hall, $22-$122

JAN 5

The 12 Days of Christmas in the
East

As directed by Music Director
Alexander Lingas, chorale ensemble
Cappella Romana will perform early
and contemporary music from the
Greek Orthodox tradition, medi¬
eval Byzantine chants, and choral
works composed by notable Greek
Americans like Frank Desby, Tikey
Zes, Peter Mlchaelides, Michael
Adamis, and Sir John Tavener for this
holiday season production.

St. James Cathedral, 8 pm, $24-$49

JAN 5-9

All That (Baroque) Jazz

Baroque music came about at the
turn of the 17th century in order
to push the boundaries of instru¬
mental writing, borrowing heavy
inspiration from popular works of
its time, much like the development
of classic American jazz. This foun¬
dational connection will be illus¬
trated in performances by baroque
violinist Aaron Westman, baroque
bassoonist Anna Marsh, and
organist Henry Lebedinsky. Pacific
MusicWorks will bring this concert
to Anacortes (Jan 5), Freeland (Jan
6), Bellevue (Jan 7), and Seattle
(Naked City Brewery on Jan 9).
Various locations, $15-$25

JAN II

Faculty Recital: Robin McCabe
with Rachelle McCabe

Celebrated faculty pianist and lec¬
turer Robin McCabe will showcase
her expertise by performing music
by Bernstein, Brahms, and William
Hirtz with her sister, Rachelle

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Lindsey Stirling

Why you should see her:

The classical violinist is crossing over
to pop and EDM.

When/Where: December 16 at
Paramount Theatre.

McCabe, professor of piano at
Oregon State University.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm,
$10/$20

JAN 12-14

★ Broadway Today

Take a look at how the high-kicks
of the past led to the Broadway
of today with showstopping per¬
formances of hits from The Book
of Mormon, Honeymoon in Vegas,
Cabaret, Company, Little Shop of
Horrors, Nine, and more thanks to
the Seattle Symphony and Steven
Reineke, Betsy Wolfe, and Jeremy
Jordan.

Benaroya Hall, $34-$96

JAN 13

★ Takacs String Quartet with
Erika Eckert

Tonight, UW's World Music series
will present the Colorado-by-way-
of-Hungary Takacs String Quartet,
an internationally acclaimed four¬
some who'll run through three
swooping compositions, includ¬
ing Mozart's String Quartet in D
Major, K. 575, Carl Vine's String
Quartet No. 6, "Child's Play," and
Mendelssohn's String Quintet No. 2
in B-fl at Major, Op. 87.

Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $44+

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JAN 13-27

Cosi fan tutte

Seattle Opera will perform Mozart's
Cos/ fan tutte, an Italian-language
opera about fiancee swapping—
roughly translated, the opera's title is
"Women are like that." This produc¬
tion about the nature of faith and
trust in relationships has regaled
audiences for over two centuries with
its bawdy, quirky style of comedy.
McCaw Hall, $25-$308

JAN 13 & FEB 24

LUCO Presents: Concert II 8c III

The Lake Union Civic Orchestra will
play quite a bit with different inter¬
pretations of the Romeo and Juliet
story. For their second concert of
the season, they'll take on iconically
dramatic pieces like Tchaikovsky's
Romeo & Juliette Fantasy Overture,
Strauss's Macbeth, and Busoni's
Indian Fantasy, with Mark Salman
on piano. For the third concert,
they'll perform Prokofiev's Romeo &
Juliet Suite No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's
Piano Concerto No. 1, with Michael
Refvem on piano.

First Free Methodist Church, 7:30 pm,
$20 (Jan 13); Shorecrest Performing
Arts Center, Shoreline, 7:30 pm
(Feb 24)

JAN 14

Seattle Baroque Orchestra: Byron
Schenkman's Favorites

Seattle Baroque Orchestra will be
joined by renowned harpsichordist
Byron Schenkman for an afternoon
program of some of his favorite
compositions.

Benaroya Hall, 2:30 pm, $20-$40

JAN 15

Nathan Laube in Recital

Nathan Laube, a young concert
organist who has performed at
legendary venues like the Vienna
Konzerthaus and the Washington
National Cathedral, will perform a
solo recital on the Benaroya organ.
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $21-$32

JAN 18

★ Itzhak Perlman

Grammy- and Emmy-winning violin
virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, who's
played a concert at the White
House to honor Queen Elizabeth II
and who received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, will perform an
evening set.

Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $125-$159

JAN 18-19

★ Prokofiev Concerto Festival
1 & 2

In this two-day Prokofiev love fest,
Seattle Symphony will take you
through the musical life of the
great Russian composer. Fittingly,
the Symphony invites the extremely
young (he's 15), extremely talented
(he won First Prize in the 2016
Young Concert Artists International
Audition), and extremely local (he
lives outside of Seattle) Nathan
Lee to play the first (and short¬
est) piano concerto Prokofiev ever
wrote. The next day you can catch
the younger (she's 12) but equally
talented Yesong Sophie Lee soloing
Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2.

The highly celebrated pianists Charlie
Albright and Conrad Tao and virtu¬
oso violist William Hagen add some
heft to the roster. One of my favorite
violin parts happens on day one in
Violin Concerto No. 1, but Prokofiev's
"Classical" Symphony on day two is
worth seeing, too, so I guess you'll
just have to go both days, rs
Benaroya Hall, $31-$97

JAN 19

Thalia Symphony Orchestra
Winter Concert

In Thalia's winter concert, the
Symphony Orchestra will take the
lead in performances of composi¬
tions by Mozart, Respighi, and
Sibelius, as well as the premiere of
an oboe concerto by music director
Joseph Pollard White.

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,

8 pm, $18-$24

CARA ROBBINS

internationally renowned soloists,
principals with major US orchestras,
and top competition winners.
Benaroya Hall, $12-$294

JAN 20

Journeys of Discovery and Hope

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber
Orchestra will be joined by Choral
Arts Northwest for a concert illumi¬
nating "journeys of discovery and
hope" through works like Haydn's
"Missa in Angustiis" and Gabriela
Lena Frank's "Leyendas."

Plymouth Congregational Church,

8 pm, $25

JAN 21

Side-by-Side Concert with Seattle
Youth Symphony Orchestra

Side-by-Side concerts pair the
Seattle Symphony with another
musical group for a session of
classical jams and witnessing mas-
terworks together. This session will
feature the Seattle Youth Symphony
Orchestra performing pieces by
Brahms and Liszt.

Benaroya Hall, 3 pm, free

JAN 23

Juho Pohjonen

Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen has
been branded intense and declarative
in his work. His powerful versatility
will be seen throughout this program
of works that span the Baroque,
Classical, and Romantic eras.

Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $40+

JAN 24

Howard Jones Solo — The Songs
& The Stories

Explore all three decades of Howard
Jones's illustrious career with this
special retrospective and stripped-
down solo show of his piano work.
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $45-$65

JAN 25

Scheherezade

The forever iconic story of Scherezade
will be resurrected in this program
of Rimsky-Korsakov's classic, paired
with performances of Beethoven's
Egmont Overture, op. 84, Weber -
Clarinet Concerto No.2, op. 74, E flat
major, and Moncayo's Huapango.
Edmonds Center for the Arts,

7:30 pm, $10-$27

JAN 19-21 & 26-28

★ Seattle Chamber Music
Society Winter Festival

The Seattle Chamber Music Society
will present its winter season pro¬
gram with a two-weekend festival of
six concerts flanked by free pre-con¬
cert recitals. Twenty acclaimed musi¬
cians are featured this year, including

Third Coast Percussion

A group of master percussionists
taking on compositions both new
and old, Third Coast Percussion
were artists in residence at
University of Notre Dame and have
been known to sometimes utilize
the audience's phone and tablet
apps at their performances.

Meany Hall, 8 pm, $36+

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JAN 25-27

★ Dausgaard Conducts Brahms

Last month, the Symphony
announced that guest conductor
Thomas Dausgaard will take over
for the current (and beloved) music
director, Ludovic Morlot, in 2019, so
this will be your first chance to see
him play the orchestra with a new¬
found sense of ownership and com¬
mitment. This suite of pastoral pieces
from Brahms will be a good place to
start, and the music, which Brahms
described as "all blue sky, babbling
of streams, sunshine and cool green
shade" will be a bright spot in dreary
January. There will also be a special,
low-key, "Untuxed" performance on
January 26. rs
Benaroya Hall, $22-$122

JAN 27

'k Mozart Birthday Bash with
Early Music Seattle

Musicians of Early Music Seattle
will honor the prodigious composer
with performances of Bach's most
inspired chamber pieces from each
of his periods.

Resonance at SOMA Towers,
Bellevue, 7:30-9:30 pm, $20/$25

Three Decades, Five Treasures

The three decades in question
are the first 30 years of the 20th
century, and the five treasures are
five distinctive composers from
five different countries, including
Ottorino Respighi, Erik Satie, Percy
Grainger, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and
Jean Sibelius.

Benaroya Hall, 2 pm, $20-$30

JAN 31

★ The St. Olaf Choir in Concert

Designated by Time as one of the
best college choirs in the nation, the
St. Olaf Choir will perform a pro¬
gram of a cappella choral excellence
with its 75 mixed voices.

Benaroya Hall, 8 pm, $30-$45

FEB I

Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist
Concert: Sepideh Raissadat,
Classical Persian Music

The UW School of Music Visiting
Artist of this year's winter quarter is
Sepideh Raissadat, an internationally
renowned Iranian classical vocalist
who plays the sehtar. She'll perform
with her students in this evening of
classical Persian music.

Brechemin Auditorium, 7:30 pm, free

FEB 1-3

★ Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3

This concert will start with a frothy,
springy burst of energy with Lili
Boulanger's "D'un matin de print-
emps," keep the energy going with
Elgar's tumultuous (and extremely
challenging) violin concerto, and
then swoon into full-blown nostalgia
with Rachmaninov's 3rd (and final)
symphony. Bring a date, rs
Benaroya Hall, $22-$122

FEB 2

★ Joshua Bell in Recital

Renowned violinist Joshua Bell will
perform some of his favorite works
accumulated throughout his career
spanning more than 30 years as a
soloist, chamber musician, recording
artist, and conductor.

Benaroya Hall, 8 pm, $65-$135

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame

Parisian early music star Marcel
Peres will return to St. James for
another Cappella Romana concert,
directing the earliest known Mass
setting—written during the mid-
14th century—by a single composer,
Guillaume de Machaut, with chants
for Candlemas.

St. James Cathedral, 8 pm, $24-$49

FEB 3

★ Antonio Sanchez: Birdman Live

Revered bandleader and jazz drum¬
mer Antonio Sanchez will return to
Seattle to perform his original per¬
cussion score to the widely acclaimed
film Birdman.

Neptune Theatre, 8 pm, $32

FEB 5

UW Symphony with Saeunn
Thorsteinsdottir, Cristina Valdes,
and Michael Jinsoo Lim

Join UW faculty cellist Saeunn
Thorsteinsdottir, pianist Cristina
Valdes, violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim,
and the University Symphony in a
program of works by by Rossini,
Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Enesco.

Conductor duties for the evening
will be split between Seattle
Symphony Music Director Ludovic
Morlot, faculty artist-in-residence
David Alexander Rahbee, and
graduate conducting student Mario
Alejandro Torres.

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $27

FEB 8 & 10

★ Morlot Conducts Strauss

Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic
Morlot will aim to bring out the
storied power of American composer
David Lang's shifting of Richard
Strauss' "epic tone poem."

Benaroya Hall, $22-$122

FEB 9

Delicacy and Mastery:
Mendelssohn's "Scottish"
Symphony

Mendelssohn's third symphony is
known as his "Scottish" symphony
for being a souvenir of his time
spent in Scotland. This program,
flanked by tenor soloist Marcus
Shelton, will also include Mozart's
Misero, o sogno - Aura, che intorno
spiri, K. 431, Otto Nicolai's The
Merry Wives of Windsor Overture,
and Ravel's Five Greek Folk Songs.
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue,

7:30 pm, $10-$20

Masters of Scottish Arts

Experience the sights and sounds of
Scotland with this ode to all things
tartan and brogue'd, an evening of
traditional dance and music through
piping, drumming, and fiddling.
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $28-$49

FEB 10

Carnival of the Animals

Cascade Symphony Orchestra will
gather again to create a sonic and
visual jungle of Camille Saint-Saens's
enchanted music, narrated by David
Dolacky, for all ages to enjoy.
Benaroya Hall, 3 pm, $3-$10

SYSO: 4 Orchestras Winter
Concert

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra
will present their main concert of
the winter season, with perfor¬
mances by their newest orchestra,
Prelude String Orchestra, along
with the Symphonette, Debut, and
Junior Symphony Orchestras in an
energetic re-imagining of many
classical standards.

Benaroya Hall, 2 pm, $16/$32

FEB II

★ Celebrate Asia

Seattle Symphony will perform their
annual Celebrate Asia concert, which
has celebrated traditions of Seattle's
Asian communities for 10 years
now. This year's concert will feature
music by famous Japanese, Chinese,
Korean, and Indian composers.
Benaroya Hall, 4 pm, $31-$97

Every Time I Feel The Spirit

Pacific MusicWorks will spend an
afternoon exploring the many
astounding contributions of
black musicians to each epoch of
American music, from colonial times
through to the influences of the
present. Critically acclaimed coun¬
tertenor Reginald L. Mobley will be
joined by an ensemble of period-
specific banjo, guitar, strings, and
piano players for this program.

St. Mark's Cathedral, 2 pm, $35/$45

FEB 13-14

★ La La Land in Concert with the
Seattle Symphony

Oscar-winning film La La Land will
be given the orchestral treatment
with this glamorous evening pairing
hosted by the Seattle Symphony,
which will perform the film's score
as it is screened.

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $44-$114

FEB 14

Danish String Quartet

The celebrated Danish String
Quartet will take the stage for a pro¬
gram of masterworks by Bartok and
Beethoven, as well as a collection of
beloved Nordic folk music arranged
by each of the quartet members.
Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $40+

Emerald Ensemble: Love Songs

Of all the possible themes, this show
on Valentine's Day is about love
songs. The Emerald Ensemble will
spend the evening playing Brahms'
"Lovesong Waltzes" from 1868 in its
original performance formatting—
that is, with four solo vocalists and

piano four-hands.

Resonance at SOMA Towers,
Bellevue, 7:30-9:30 pm, $35

FEB 16

★ Garrick Ohlsson

Known for his mastery of Chopin,
Schubert, Mozart, and Beethoven,
as well as his legendary win at the
International Chopin Competition
four decades ago, pianist Garrick
Ohlsson will return to Meany Hall.
Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $50+

Spiritual Journey

Normally an instrumental-heavy
group, Emerald City Music will now
turn to exploring the power of
the voice in chamber music on this
"Spiritual Journey."

415 Westlake, 8 pm, $45

FEB 16-18

★ Just A Kiss Away: Lisa Fischer
8c Grand Baton with the Seattle
Symphony

Frequent Rolling Stones guest
vocalist Lisa Fischer is more rock
and roll than anything else, but she
can imbue power into any genre
through her towering vocal com¬
mand. She'll be joined onstage by
her crew the Grand Baton and the
Seattle Symphony, all of whom will
help her recreate rock anthems like
"Gimme Shelter" and "Rock and
Roll" through an orchestral lens.
Benaroya Hall, $34-$96

FEB 17

★ Free at The Frye: Gaelle Solal

In this free and all-ages ongoing
series at the Frye, award-winning
French guitarist Gaelle Solal will
showcase the unbelievable level of
talent that led the Conservatoire de
Marseilles to declare her a virtuoso
at age 14.

Frye Art Museum, 2 pm, free

FEB 17-18

NOCCO: Vibrant Hearts —

A Romanian Celebration

Feel a patriotic swell for the his¬
tory and people of Romania with
this program in collaboration with
the Romanian American Chamber
Concerts and Arts, ROCCA, featur¬
ing a performance by pianist Oana
Rusu Tomai of classic Enescu and
Bartok compositions.

University Christian Church, 2-4 pm,
$15/$25 (Feb 17); The Royal Room,
7:30 pm, $10-$25 (Feb 18)

FEB 18

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Handel—From the War of Love

Renowned classical musician and
Klezmer music scholar Byron
Schenkman will helm this evening
dedicated to Handel's chamber can¬
tatas for bass voice, with a special
guest performance by bass-baritone
vocalist Ian Pomerantz.

Benaroya Hall, 7 pm, $10-$42

FEB 21

★ Music of Today: DXARTS

The University of Washington School
of Music and DXARTS — Center for
Digital Art and Experimental Media
have partnered once again to co¬
sponsor Music of Today, a series that
showcases the innovative new works
and contemporary classics composed
and initiated by faculty members
and guest composers.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm, $15

FEB 23

Faculty Recital: Craig Sheppard

UW pianist Craig Sheppard, who has
played under Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Georg Solti, Yehudi Menuhin, Aaron
Copland, and other famous con¬
ductors, will bring passion to your
evening with Bach's masterwork, The
Art of The Fugue.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm, $20

FEB 23-24

Vivaldi's Gloria

Originally written while he worked
at a Venetian orphanage for girls,
Vivaldi's career-defining masterwork
"Gloria" is an exultant hymn that
dwells on the otherworldly power
of the feminine. Conductor, violinist,
and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky
will lead this production, which will
also include a Vivaldi concerto and
a symphony from Johann Sebastian
Bach's youngest son, Johann
Christian Bach.

Benaroya Hall, $21-$77

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With guest conductor Ludovic Morlot.

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Beatrice & Benedict is the novel
adaptation of Shakespeare's exu¬
berant comedy Much Ado About
Nothing set to an operatic score
by Berlioz and paired with English
text originally by Shakespeare. This
theatrical hybrid produced by Seattle
Opera is notable for its witty banter,
fast pace, and confessional style.
McCaw Hall, $25-$308

FEB 24-27

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If you've ever wanted to discuss
the hypothetical sex lives of con¬
vent dwellers, Sacred Sexuality will
scratch that itch with a program of
music composed, published, and
originally performed by 17th century
nuns. Tonight it will be performed
and interpreted again by sopranos
Linda Tsatsanis and Brenna Wells,
baroque cellist Nathan Whittaker,
and organist Henry Lebedinsky
for works by Chiara Margarita
Cozzolani, Maria Peruchona, Isabella
Leonarda, and more.

Resonance at SOMA Towers,
Bellevue, 7:30-9:30 pm, $25 (Feb
24); St. Augustine's in-the-woods,
Freeland, 3 pm, $20/$25 (Feb 25);
Naked City Brewery & Taphouse,

7 pm, $15/$20 (Feb 27)

FEB 25

★ Rachel Barton Pine: Testament

When you think of 18th century
English people in powder wigs danc¬
ing their extremely organized dances
in rococo rooms, the music you have
in your head is the "partitas" part of
Bach's Complete Sonatas and Partitas
for Solo Violin. The sound of their
sadness on the balcony thereafter is
the "sonatas" part. Something about
the stripped-down nature of a solo
violin allows you to feel in your bones
the mathematical precision and ele¬
gance that distinguishes Bach's work,
and nobody brings that out better
than Rachel Barton Pine, rs
Benaroya Hall, 2:30 pm, $30-$50

MARCH 2

★ Chamber Singers & University
Chorale

The University of Washington
Chamber Singers and University
Chorale will present their winter
quarter concert with music from
the Baltic states, including a per¬
formance of Jaakko Mantyjarvi's
Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae.

UW Meany Theatre, 7:30 pm, $10

The Tudor Choir

Performing for the first time in two
years, Seattle's Tudor Choir will
perform the world premiere of a
work composed with them in mind
by composer Nico Muhly as well as
The Western Wind Mass by John
Taverner at this Cappella Romana
production.

St. Mark's Cathedral, 8 pm, $24-$49

MARCH 3

Seattle Classic Guitar Society:
Xuefei Yang

Internationally acclaimed classical
guitarist Xuefei Yang will show¬
case her skill at making her own

Prokofiev Concerto Festival I & 2

arrangements, as well as
her particular interest in
bringing Chinese music and
chamber music to the rest of
the world.

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $38

Why you should see it:

ConradTao, a musician of "explosive
force" (Baltimore Sun), is one of sev¬
eral young virtuosos on the bill.

When/Where: January 18-19 at
Benaroya Hall.

MARCH 6

★ Imogen Cooper

Imogen Cooper is an English pianist
who didn't really begin to come to
worldwide attention until she was in
her late 50s; now she's in her late 60s
and known for her interpretations of
Schubert and Schumann, jen graves
Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $47+

MARCH 9

★ Ensign Symphony & Chorus:
Hold On

Ensign Symphony & Chorus begin
their new spring season with Hold
On, an evening of lush Easter-ready
musical traditions explored through
song and orchestral arrangement,
with a focus on peace and hope.
Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $18-$38

MARCH 12

Nordic Passion

Despite being located in a pretty
cold corner of the world, the Nordic
region still has a passionate core,
illustrated in this program of pieces
by Rossini, Brahms, and Sibelius
and performed by the Cascade
Symphony Orchestra.

Edmonds Center for the Arts, 7:30
pm, $10-$27

MARCH 13

★ Jerusalem Quartet

World-touring ensemble Jerusalem
Quartet return to Meany with a
dynamic string program including
pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, and
Janacek.

Meany Hall, 7:30 pm, $40+

Haydn & Schubert

The Seattle Symphony will be led by
Pablo Rus Broseta in this program of
exploring how far composers Haydn
and Schubert went in their work to
plumb the depths of human misery
and passion.

Benaroya Hall, 12 pm, $22-$122

★ Town Music: Roomful of Teeth

Roomful of Teeth draw on an
eclectic mix of sounds that include
"yodeling, Broadway belting, Inuit
throat singing, Georgian, Persian,
Hindustani music, Korean P'ansori
and Death Metal," but mostly yodel¬
ing and opera, though that be not
a mark upon their name. Their mix
is mesmerizing and energizing all at
the same time. They come to Seattle
a lot, but seeing them in the inti¬
mate setting of Seattle First Baptist
Church will be a treat, so long as you
don't melt upon entering, rs
Seattle First Baptist Church,

7:30 pm, $20

MARCH 10

Puget Sound Symphony
Orchestra Winter Concert:
Symphonic Dances

The Puget Sound Symphony
Orchestra will present the winter
concert of their 2017-2018 season,
with a program spotlighting Berlioz's
Roman Carnival Overture, Respighi's
Roman Festival, and Mendelssohn's
Fourth Symphony.

First Free Methodist Church, 7:30 pm

MARCH II & 17-18

Seattle Pro Musica: Sounds and
Sweet Airs

In a celebration of the impending
Seattle Shakespeare Festival, Seattle
Pro Musica will present Sounds and
Sweet Airs, a showcase of choral
interpretations of poetry and prose
by the Bard himself. Extra points if
you get the reference in this event
title (hint: flip through The Tempest).
Trinity Lutheran Church, 7:30 pm,
$12-$38 (March 11); Seattle First
Baptist Church, 7:30 pm, $12-$38
(March 17); Faith Lutheran Church,
3 pm, $12-$38 (March 18)

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Carmina Burana

Dig into Carl Orff's militantly struc¬
tured and majestic pagan piece
Carmina Burana —which is best
known for its often-employed choral
movement "O Fortuna," which is
Latin for "life sucks." The evening
will also include a mischievous per¬
formance of Manuel de Falla's "The
Three-Cornered Hat."

Benaroya Hall, $22-$122

MARCH 16

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In this short, no-intermission concert,
enjoy the dynamic, colorful nature
of Manuel de Falla's "The Three-
Cornered Hat."

Benaroya Hall, 7 pm, $13-$55

★ Northwest Sinfonietta:
Inspirations From The Past

The Northwest Sinfonietta will
gather to perform works indicative
of the theme "Inspirations From
The Past," including a program of
European works composed in the
1920s and '30s collected by composer
and soloist Joseph Swensen.

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 pm, $21.50-$46.50

MARCH IB

Byron Schenkman & Friends: The
Kreutzer and Pathetique Sonatas
of Beethoven

Renowned classical musician and
Klezmer music scholar Byron
Schenkman will helm this evening
dedicated to Beethoven's most
celebrated sonatas, with a special
guest performance by violinist
Mikhail Shmidt.

Benaroya Hall, 7 pm, $10-$42

EVERY SUNDAY

★ Compline Choir

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on the floor while listening to choral
music. Rich Smith wrote, "Something
about the combination of the
architecture, the fellowship, and the
music gave me a little peek into the
ineffable." St. Mark's Cathedral,
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Emerald City Comic Con

Why you should go: You get

to meet artists and hang out with
Dragon Slayer Ornstein.

When/Where: March 1-4 at
the Washington State Convention &
Trade Center.

THROUGH DEC 17

★ Leavenworth Christmas
Lighting Festival

At this annual festival, the Bavarian
town transforms into a twinkly holi¬
day village of lights. Enjoy live holi¬
day music and performances in the
streets, an appearance from Old Saint
Nick in front of the gazebo, roasted
chestnuts, a traditional Gluhwein
Tent selling hot spiced wine and
cider, and much more.

Leavenworth Festhalle, free

THROUGH DEC 23

Celtic Yuletide

Magical Strings will perform a series
of Christmas concerts with Irish
music, dance, storytelling, juggling,
and songs.

Various locations, $25

★ Christmas Ship Festival

This "ship-to-shore" holiday celebra¬
tion has been a Northwest tradition
since 1949. The Spirit of Seattle is dec¬
orated with twinkly white lights and
sails to 65 Puget Sound waterfronts,
where an onboard choir serenades
passengers and shore-dwellers alike.
Various locations, $34-$62

THROUGH DEC 24

Reindeer Festival

The nursery will be disguised as a
winter wonderland this season for
families to enjoy. Do some holiday
shopping, pick up a Christmas tree,
visit the model train village, hang out
with Santa's reindeer, and more.
Swansons Nursery, free

Snowflake Lane

Get photos with Santa, then experi¬
ence beautiful lights, "toy soldier
drummers," animatronic characters,
and pretty music in artificial snow.
Bellevue Collection, free

COURTESY OF EMERALD CITY COMIC CON

THROUGH DEC 31

★ Garden d'Lights

Garden d'Lights features over
half a million sparkling lights
formed into the whimsical
shapes of plants, flowers,
birds, animals, and cascading
waterfalls.

Bellevue Botanical Garden, $5

THROUGH JAN I

-k Gingerbread Village

This gingerbread village is no
joke: Every year, Seattle architec¬
ture firms, master builders, and
Sheraton Seattle culinary teams
come together to build a meticu¬
lously planned candy wonderland.
The theme of this year's village is
"25 Years of Cheer: A Celebration
of Seattle." See elements of the
city's past and its imagined future
in candy form, from skyscrapers to
underground tunnels.

City Centre, free

Redmond Winter Wonderland

Myriad holiday activities await you
on the Eastside at Redmond Town
Center's holiday extravaganza. Hop
on the Hyatt House carousel, ride
the holiday train, twirl around in a
synthetic skating rink, visit Santa in
his workshop, and more.

Redmond Town Center, free

'k WildLights

See the zoo in a new light—500,000
energy-efficient LEDs, in fact! See
luminous animal-themed designs,
have an indoor snowball fight, meet
Santa and his very real reindeer,
listen to carolers, and enjoy the holi¬
day beer garden.

Woodland Park Zoo, $9.95

Winterfest

Go ice skating, visit the winter train
village, see professional ice sculptures,

watch performances, and more.
Seattle Center, free

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See hammerhead sharks, sea turtles,
carnivorous plants and their insect
prey, a 30-foot-wide underwater
landscape, a majestic polar bear
family, and a giant Pacific octopus
in light form.

Port Defiance Zoo, $8.50

THROUGH JAN 7

Lantern Light Festival

Celebrate a 2,000-year-old Chinese
tradition by seeing authentic lan¬
terns of various shapes, sizes, and
colors set aglow.

Washington State Fair Events Center,
Puyallup, 5 pm, $23-$49

DEC 8-10

Anglicon 2017

Fans of tacky monsters, sinister
alien conspiracies, and impish
Timelords join other Whovians and
TARDIS appreciators for this con¬
vention that will feature celebrity
guests, panels, a cosplay contest,
trivia Olympics, a masquerade ball,
exhibits of props and costumes, and
special guests: Peter Davison, the
Fifth Doctor, and Sylvester McCoy,
the Seventh Doctor.

DoubleTree Hotel, $35-$75

DEC 9

Dickens Festival

Meet Ebenezer Scrooge, the Artful
Dodger, Nicholas Nickleby, and other
Dickensians in person as they perform
in the Piccadilly Circus-themed festival
grounds. You're invited to dress up
Victorian-style and buy food and drink
or trinkets from local vendors.
Stadium, Tacoma, 11 am-5 pm, free

DEC 10

Lithuanian Extravaganza

Witness the many shades of Baltic
splendor with this mini-fest of color¬
ful song and dance composed and
performed by Lithuanian artists
like Vakarai, a Lithuanian choir, and
Lietutis & Lankas, lively Lithuanian
folk dance groups.

Central Library, 2 pm, free

DEC 13

2017 Hometown Holiday

Get deep into the rural side of the
Seattle metro area with this country
music holiday showdown, featuring
live sets from big names like Dustin
Lynch, Big & Rich, Chris Janson,

Michael Ray, and Midland.

ShoWare Center, Kent, 8 pm, $38-$137

DEC 21

Feast of the Winter Solstice

Join the Fremont Arts Council on the
longest night of the year to celebrate
the season with shared dishes, color¬
ful costumes (the suggestions span
from "dance floor royalty" to "high
animal spirits," so don't be shy), art,
and live music.

Fremont, 7 pm

DEC 22-JAN I

Model Train Festival

Wander among dozens of tiny trains
and intricate model railroad layouts
throughout the museum (featur¬
ing train-related artifacts from the
Northwest) while learning about how
railroads influenced the growth and
development of Washington State.
Washington State Historical Society,
Tacoma, $14

DEC 23

A Cascade Country Christmas

Join country music artists Darin Jones,
Kaitie Wade, and Maile Mae as they
perform stripped-down, acoustic ver¬
sions of their tracks for an evening of
Cascadian Christmas vibes, hosted by
local talent Aaron Crawford.

Hard Rock Cafe, 7 pm, $10/$15

DEC 29

Resolution 2018

A gargantuan EDM bash as 2017 kicks
the bucket, with world class festival-
style electronica acts to keep you
dancing through the night like Alesso,
Duke Dumont, Feed Me, Ferry
Corsten, Gorgon City, Madeon, Nero,
NGHTMRE, ARMNHMR, BlackGummy,
Crizzly, Destructo, Dubloadz, Figure,
Ghastly, llan Bluestone, K?D, and
LAXX. VIP tickets (21+) include a gift
bag, private lounges and viewing
areas, and meet-and-greets.

WaMu Theater, 6:30 pm, $92/$167

DEC 31

★ Artist Home's Sixth Annual
New Year's Eve Celebration

Artist Home, a pillar of the Northwest
music community, will present a
night of live music and dancing in
the sixth year of this tradition. Artists
for this iteration include Cataldo,
Hobosexual, SassyBlack, Smokey
Brights, and many more.

Neptune Theatre, 9 pm, $45/$50

Chihuly NYE pARTy

Choose this extravagant New Year's
Eve party if you want to watch fire¬
works through the glass ceiling, tour
the glass museum, hear live music by
the Michael Benson Band, and drink a
champagne toast at midnight.

Chihuly Garden and Glass, 8 pm, $250

First Night Tacoma

Kick off the year in Seattle's smaller,
more manageable neighbor town.

A really short parade will start the
festivities, followed by dancing, music,
and other performances on "over a
dozen" stages. The evening will wind
up with fireworks.

Tacoma, 6 pm, $10-$15

Indulgence

At "Seattle's biggest New Year's Eve
bash," you can explore MoPOP, check
out a comedy stage, get drunk, and
even hear music by Hairstorm and
Brand X. If you haven't brought any¬

body to smooch, check out the Singles
Mingle and you may be mashing lips
by midnight.

MoPOP, 8 pm, $69/$350

SPECTRA: New Year's Eve Under
the Arches

Hang out in the Pacific Science
Center's exhibits, planetarium, and
Laser Dome while you sip drinks
and dance to KEXP DJs. At mid¬
night, watch the fireworks in their
nifty be-sculptured courtyard. VIPs
get access to an open bar, snacks
and desserts, a private lounge,
champagne, and more.

Pacific Science Center, 9 pm, $85/$180

JAN 5-7

Northwest Remodeling Expo

Hundreds of local and regional home
improvement companies will show
their wares and chat with attendees
about their remodeling ideas. Take
notes for a possible project or pick up
some pieces from the vendors.
Washington State Convention &
Trade Center, $4

Puyallup Home and Garden Show

Homeowners in all stages of remod¬
eling, landscaping, and decorating
are invited to peruse hundreds of
exhibits, see demonstrations, chat
with the pros, and get inspiration for
their projects.

Washington State Fair Events Center,
Puyallup

JAN 12-14

Rustycon 35

A science fiction and fantasy con¬
vention that spans writing, science,
art, costuming, and gaming. Look
forward to panels, classes, multiple
dances, a masquerade, concerts,
casinos, and special guests like
Annie Bellet, Jonathan Tweet, Katie
Croonenberghs, and North.

Seattle Airport Marriott, $45/$50

JAN 13-14

Bavarian Icefest

It's a holiday tradition for the
Bavarian town to transform into
a winter wonderland replete with
snow sculptures, a snowmobile sled-
pull, live ice carving, and many more
frosty activities.

Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce,
$5

Limmud Seattle

This festival invites people of all back¬
grounds to learn about a broad range
of Jewish cultural subjects (including
art, music, food, social action, the
environment, history, and literature)
through hands-on workshops, perfor¬
mances, and panel discussions.
Shoreline Conference Center, $36-$72

JAN 24-28

Washington Sportsmen's Show

Outdoorsy people can plan their
winter adventures with help from
professional guides, outfitters, and
other resources to make fishing,
wildlife-watching, and camping trip
dreams come true.

Washington State Fair Events Center,
Puyallup, $15

JAN 28-27

★ Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival

This event in Leavenworth—the infa¬
mous German-themed town/tourist
attraction nestled in the Cascades—
looks like the coziest mid-winter
music festival, filled with beardo-
magnet amenities like skiing and
snowboarding, a hot-toddy garden,
wine tastings, and festival-branded
flannel shirts. The weekend's musical
offerings are varied, with numer¬
ous local and national acts ranging
from indie rock to hiphop, including
Ra Ra Riot, Cave Singers, the Black
Tones, Hobosexual, Y La Bamba,

Great Grandpa, Wall of Ears, Bread &
Butter, Gifted Gab, Moorea Masa &
the Mood, Burying Ground, Debbie
Miller, and Jessica Dennison + Jones.

BRITTNIE FULLER

Leavenworth Festhalle, $40-$75

JAN 26-FEB3

Seattle Boat Show

See over 1,000 recreational water¬
craft, from stand-up paddle boards
to "super yachts," plus a plethora of
accessories, over 225 free boating and
fishing seminars, and gear for sale.
CenturyLink Field Event Center

FEB 3-4

Antique and Collectibles Show

This biannual show features 400
booths of vintage items, including

clothing, estate jewelry, furniture,
pottery, toys from the 1880s to 1970s,
rare books, and much more.
Washington State Fair Events Center,
Puyallup, $7

FEB 7-11

Northwest Flower and Garden
Festival

This huge conference and exhibi¬
tion gathers landscapers, speakers,
vendors, and other garden profes¬
sionals. See show gardens, learn
about subjects such as locavorism,
permaculture, and sustainability
at special seminars, buy books and
meet authors, and generally immerse
yourself in a haven of green whole¬
someness.

Washington State Convention &
Trade Center, $12-$120

FEB II

★ Lunar New Year in Chinatown

Ring in the Year of the Rooster at
this massive Lunar New Year celebra¬
tion that showcases the diversity,
richness, and culture of the Asian
community. See traditional dragon
and lion dances, Japanese Taiko
drumming, martial arts, and other
cultural performances.
Chinatown-International District,

11 am-4 pm, free

FEB 17-25

Seattle Home Show

See hundreds of displays of home
and garden products, attend "Meet
the Experts" seminars, learn about
the latest trends in building products
and materials, taste wine, and make
some arts and crafts for your home.
CenturyLink Field Event Center, $13

FEB 22-25

Wintergrass Festival

Bluegrass artists from near and far
will gather to play their twangy, reso¬
nant music at this annual festival. The
lineup features Del McCoury & David
Grisman, the Seldom Scene, Mark
O'Connor with the O'Connor Band,
and many others.

Hyatt Regency Bellevue, $38-$150

MARCH 1-4

★ Emerald City Comic Con 2018

Do we need to tell you what Emerald
City Comic Con is? Well, just in case,
it's your chance to meet the artists,
actors, and creators who enliven pop
culture and comics. They've already
announced a sizable lineup of guests,
including local artist Jen Vaughn
(Avery Fatbottom Renaissance Fair
Detective), Portland's Colleen Coover
(Bandette ), and actors Ricky Whittle
and Yetide Badaki ( American Gods),
Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter), and
Mark Sheppard ( Supernatural).
Washington State Convention &
Trade Center, $30-$50

Sewing and Stitchery Expo

Crafters of all kinds are invited to
attend beginner, intermediate,
and advanced stitching classes, get
ideas for new projects, meet sewing
experts, and bask in the glow of this
four-day sewing extravaganza.
Washington State Fair Events Center,
Puyallup, 8:30 am

MARCH 3-4

Outdoor Gear and Adventure
Expo

This interactive expo is for anyone
who loves to be very prepared on
their outdoor adventures. Find over
100 exhibitors, a climbing wall, a beer
garden, a zipline, and more.
CenturyLink Field Event Center, $12

Seattle Bike Show

Cycling aficionados can get their
thrills by browsing over 125 exhibi¬
tors, attending presentations, and
mingling with fellow bike enthusiasts.
CenturyLink Field Event Center, $12

Seattle Golf and Travel Show

The largest consumer golf and travel
show on the West Coast features
over 200 exhibitors, information on
travel destinations, and equipment
demonstrations.

CenturyLink Field Event Center, $14

Seattle Miniature Show

What better way to manifest a
sense of control over your life than
to surround yourself with a min¬
iature world? Whether you're an
avid collector or a person who has
always casually wanted a dollhouse,
you're bound to find a handcrafted
item to bring home.

DoubleTree Suites, Tukwila, 10 am, $7

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15 "Checkmate, sucker!"

16 U nicorn's coming-out day: Abbr.

17 Thief

18 Bread container in a deli

20 Wears around the edges

21 Really bother

22 Mortgages, e.g.

23 Weight watcher of children's rhymes

24 "Rubyfruit Jungle" author Rita_

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25 Can-do

26 Easy-to-do

28 "Hurt" band, briefly

29 Crumbly white stuff

32 Camel dropping

33 Site of Mohammed's tomb

36 Tar :_:: feather : pluma

37 Turner page-turner

39 Black stone

40 Publisher seen wearing a captain's
hat and a bathrobe

42 BDSM role

43 Shower affection (on)

44 "Noir Alley" channel

45 Capital of Zimbabwe

47 Ig noramus

48 Steely Dan album that comic Phil
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49 Razzle d azzle

53 Drink in

54 AstroTurf alternative

55 Moth 's lure

56 Rel igious book split into surahs

58 Time off

59 Pu mp stuff

60 "Playwright of the Midwest"

61 Riotous state

62 Pump stuff

63 Country where you can spend kips

64 Some mowers

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2 Megaconglomerate of the "Mr.
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3 Being tried, in law

4 Tripoli resident is a master chef?

5 Pulls a fast one on

6 Saluting word

7 Late September babies concealed
one strong craving?

8 Comes to

9 Tour date

10 Like roads that are hard to pass on

11 Purposely defame a Cuban boy?

12 Chutzpah

13 Puts on

19 Madame Boothe Luce's sex drive?
21 "Allow me"

27 Trade expo

29 "Actually," initially

30 What may follow you

31 Tomorrow's dinner ... and, crypti¬
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35 Big name in body wash

38 Defen se aacy. that tracks Santa on
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45 Takes one's turn

46 Process, as sugar

47 Brazil ian state whose capital is
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